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Reading edition
JENNINGS, John. b. 14 Sep. 1789; hon. secretary of the Star club, London 1831–39; R. of St. John the Evangelist, Westminster 1832 to death; canon residentiary of Westminster 9 Jany. 1837 to death; archdeacon of Westminster, Jany. 1869 to death, sub-dean 1881 to death; the sole surviving priest who officiated at coronation of Victoria 1838. d. Dean’s yard, Westminster 26 March 1883. bur. Lyne church near Chertsey 3 April. I.L.N. xxvi 268 (1855) portrait, lxxxii 332 (1883), portrait.
JENNISON, John. b. 1789; a handloom weaver, Stockport; established Jennison’s Gardens, Stockport 1829; originated the Belle Vue gardens, Manchester 1836, which became the favourite resort of pleasure seekers of Lancashire and surrounding counties; his first great picture The siege of Algiers produced 1852. d. at his residence, Bellevue gardens, Manchester 20 Sep. 1869. The Manchester Guardian 21 Sep. 1869 p. 5.
JENOUR, Alfred. R. of Pilton, Northants. 1836–45; P.C. of Regent sq. chapel, St. Pancras, London 1845–51; R. of Kittisford, Somerset 1851–4; P.C. of Blackpool, Lancs. 1854 to death; author of The book of the prophet Isaiah translated from the Hebrew, with a commentary 2 vols. 1832; A treatise on languages 1832; Job translated from the Hebrew, with critical notes 1841; The christian mother, a memoir of Ann Jenour 1840; Rationale Apocalypticum or exposition of the Apocalypse 2 vols. 1852. d. 1868.
JENOUR, Joshua (eld. son of Joshua Jenour, master of stationers’ co., d. 1774). b. Serjeants’ inn, Fleet st. London 31 July 1755; liveryman of stationers’ co. 1776; published The Park, a poem 1778; The wife chase, a monitory poem; Marriage, a precautionary tale; The horrible revenge 1830; Observations on the taxation of property 1795, five editions, all his works were anonymous; John Bull a weekly paper of essays. d. Gravesend 23 Jany. 1853. G.M. xxxix 325 (1853).
JENYNS, Soame Gambier. b. 1826; cornet 13 hussars 30 Dec. 1845; major 18 hussars 19 Feb. 1858; lieut. col. 13 hussars 24 May 1861 to 4 Feb. 1871 when placed on half pay as colonel; C.B. 5 July 1855; author of System of non-pivot drill as adapted to the present English cavalry drill book, in G. T. Denison’s Modern Cavalry (1868) pp. 341–50. d. Much Wenlock 26 Nov. 1873.
JEPHSON, Henry. b. near Mansfield, Notts. 4 Oct. 1798; studied in St. George’s hospital; went to Leamington as assistant to Mr. Chambers 1818, a partner 1819, sole proprietor of the practice; M.D. Glasgow 1827; patients from all parts of Great Britain and from the Continent came to Leamington to be under his care; had a specially contrived travelling carriage made in which to attend patients at a distance from Leamington; his income for many years was over £20,000 a year; became totally blind 1848; made his patients eat moderately and abstain from stimulants and prescribed the Leamington waters internally and externally; a public statue of him erected at Leamington 1848 and the public gardens called after his name. d. Beech Lawn, Leamington 14 May 1878. Medical Times 25 May 1878 pp. 575–6; Leamington Chronicle 1 June 1878 p. 8.
JEPHSON, John Mounteney (youngest son of rev. John Jephson 1764–1826, preb. of Armagh). b. 16 Dec. 1819; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1843; C. of Monewden, Suffolk 1853–6; C. of Hutton near Brentwood, Essex 1856–64; V. of Childerditch near Brentwood 1864; F.S.A. 24 May 1855; author of Narrative of a walking tour in Brittany 1859; Shakespere, his birthplace, home and grave 1864; edited the Literary Gazette early in 1858. d. Childerditch vicarage 1 Jany. 1865.
JEPHSON-NORREYS, Sir Charles Denham Orlando, 1 Baronet (son of lieut. col. Wm. Jephson of Egham, Surrey). b. Englefield Green, Surrey 1799; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1828; M.P. for Mallow 1826–59, contested Mallow 1859; assumed additional surname of Norreys by r.l. 18 July 1838; cr. baronet 6 Aug. 1838. d. Queenstown 11 July 1888.
JERDAN, William (son of John Jerdan, farmer d. 1796). b. Kelso, Roxburghshire 16 April 1782; clerk to C. Elliott writer to the signet, Edinb. 1802–5; editor of the Aurora, the hotelkeepers’ paper, London 1806 and of other papers 1806–13; while a reporter witnessed murder of Spencer Percival and was the first to seize Bellingham 11 May 1812; editor of the Sun 11 May 1813 to May 1817; editor of the Literary Gazette from No. 26 July 1817 to 28 Dec. 1850; chief founder of Royal Soc. of literature 1823; F.S.A. 1826; lost his money on failure of Whitehead’s bank 1808 and in the panic of 1826; granted civil list pension of £100, 23 March 1853; author of Six weeks in Paris or a cure for the Gallomania by a late Visitant 3 vols. 1817, 2 ed. 1818; National portrait gallery of illustrations and eminent personages of the nineteenth century 5 vols. 1830–4; The Autobiography of W. Jerdan 4 vols. 1852–3; Men I have known 1866; a contributor to Notes and Queries under name of Bushey Heath. d. Bushey Heath, Herts. 11 July 1869. Fraser’s Mag. i 605–6 (1830), portrait; Reg. and Mag. of Biog. ii 94–5 (1869); Maclise Portrait gallery (1883) 1–4, portrait; Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities 2 Ser. ii 35–52 (1876).
JERDAN, William Freeling (2 son of the preceding). b. 1818; sec. to Great Northern railway of France; a principal shareholder in and administrator of the Literary Gazette; a clerk in secretary’s office, general post office, London to death. d. 6 Feb. 1859.
JERDON, Archibald (son of Archibald Jerdon). b. Bonjedward, Roxburghshire 21 Sep. 1819; ed. Edin. univ.; communicated facts respecting birds to Zoologist 1841; acquired much knowledge about the phanerogamous local flora and cryptogamic botany; published lists of border fungi in Proc. of Berwickshire Naturalists’ club; two species of fungi bear his name; F. Botanical soc. Edin. 1871. d. Allerton near Jedburgh, Feb. 1874. Trans. Botanical Soc. Edin. xii 201–2 (1876); Proc. Linnean Soc. (1872–73) 32.
JERDON, Thomas Caverhill (brother of the preceding). b. 1811; ed. Edinb. univ.; assistant surgeon Madras army 11 Sep. 1835, surgeon 4 light cavalry 12 July 1852 to 1861, surgeon 11 Madras N.I. 23 March 1861 to 1862; the botanical genus Jerdonia was called after him; author of Illustrations of Indian ornithology, Madras 1847; The birds of India, Calcutta 2 vols. 1862–4; The mammals of India 1867, 2 ed. 1874. d. Upper Norwood, Surrey 12 June 1872. Medical Times and Gazette, i 745 (1872).
JEREMIE, James Amiraux (son of James Jeremie, merchant). b. St. Peter’s port, Guernsey 12 April 1802; ed. Blundell’s sch. Tiverton and Trin. coll. Camb.; B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827, B.D. 1850, D.D. 1850, D.C.L. 1862; fellow of his coll. 1826–50; professor of classical and general literature Haileybury 7 April 1830–50, dean 1838–50; christian advocate in univ. of Camb. 1833–34; exam. chap. to Dr. Kaye, bp. of Lincoln 1830; preb. of Lincoln 20 Dec. 1834 to 1845; R. of Winwick, Northants. 1843–8; subdean and canon of Lincoln 1 July 1848 to July 1864; regius prof. of divinity univ. of Camb. 16 Feb. 1850 to 30 Sep. 1870; R. of Somersham, Hunts. 1850–70; dean of Lincoln 4 July 1864 to death; author of The office and mission of St. John the Baptist 1823; The doctrines of our Saviour in the four gospels in harmony with St. Paul’s Epistles 1825; The last discourse of our Saviour in reference to the divine origin of christianity 1833; a writer in the Encyclopædia Metropolitana. d. the Deanery, Lincoln 11 June 1872. bur. Guernsey. I.L.N. xxi 341 (1852) portrait, xxii 356 (1853) portrait, lx 611, 625, 630 (1872) portrait.
Note.—He gave to the University of Cambridge in 1870 the sum of £1000 to found two annual prizes for the encouragement of a critical study of the lxx version of the Old Testament and such other Hellenistic literature as may serve to illustrate the New Testament.
JERMYN, George Bitton (eld. son of Peter Jermyn of Halesworth, Suffolk, solicitor 1767–97). b. Halesworth 2 Nov. 1789; ed. at Ipswich gr. sch., at Norwich and Caius coll. Camb., removed to Trinity hall 1813; LLB. 1814, LLD. 1826; C. of Hawkedon, Suffolk 1814–17; C. of Littleport, Isle of Ely 1817–20; C. of Swaffham Prior near Newmarket 1820; compiled a history of his own family, 700 pages folio; made collections for a genealogical history of Suffolk, now in the museum Bury St. Edmunds. d. island of Maddelena, Sardinia 2 March 1857. Nichols’s Herald and Genealogist, v 441–3 (1870).
JERMYN, James (3 son of Robert Jermyn, collector of customs at Southwold, Suffolk). Barrister; collector of pier dues at Southwold; author of The Halesworth Review from 14 Sep. to 14 Oct. 1808. Halesworth 1808, anon., and 6 other anonymous works; also of Prospectus and specimen of an English gradus and dictionary of ideas 1848, he left 128 MS. volumes of materials for this work, the labour of 30 years, which were acquired by Wm. Aldis Wright about 1867; Book of English epithets, literal and figurative 1849. d. Reydon, Southwold, Suffolk 1852. Notes and Queries 7 Ser. ii 368, 475 (1886), iii 55 (1887).
JERNINGHAM, Arthur William (2 son of Wm. Charles Jerningham 1770–1820, officer in Austrian army). b. 22 Feb. 1807; ed. Stonyhurst 1818–23; entered R.N. 13 June 1823; engaged training the coast guard in gunnery 1847–52; commander R. naval coast volunteers, Ireland 1854–7; commander Plymouth gunnery ship 1857–62; captain 18 Sep. 1851, retired 1 July 1864; retired admiral 26 Sep. 1878; author of Remarks on the means of conveying the fire of ships’ broadsides 1851. d. 11 Heather bank, Bournemouth 24 Nov. 1889. Times 27 Nov. 1889 p. 7; Gillow’s English Catholics, iii 623–4 (1887).
JERNINGHAM, Charles William Edward (eld. son of Edward Jerningham 1774–1822, barrister). b. 27 Nov. 1805; ed. Stonyhurst; barrister I.T. 12 Feb. 1830; a frequent contributor to Dolman’s Magazine; author of A letter to the vicar apostolic of Great Britain upon the regulations by the holy see, with respect to mixed marriages 1843. d. 26 Feb. 1854. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii 624–5 (1887).
JERNINGHAM, George Sulyarde Stafford (3 son of 8 baron Stafford 1771–1851). b. Haughley park, Norfolk 17 Feb. 1806; entered foreign office 1825; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to king of Wurtemberg 20 May 1854, to king of Sweden and Norway 11 Nov. 1859 to 11 Sep. 1872 when retired on a pension; C.B. 13 July 1872. d. 18 Nov. 1874.
JERNINGHAM, William George Stafford (brother of preceding). b. Cossey hall, Norwich 15 July 1812; attached to mission at Munich 20 Jany. 1834; chargé d’ affaires and consul general Peru 1 Dec. 1857, minister resident and consul general there 12 Dec. 1872 to death. d. Southampton 16 July 1874.
JERRAM, Charles (son of Charles Jerram, farmer, d. 1807). b. Blidworth in Sherwood forest 17 Jany. 1770; assistant at a unitarian school at Highgate 1790; entered Magd. coll. Camb. 1793; B.A. 1797, M.A. 1800; C. of Long Sutton, Lincs. 1797–1805; C. of Chobham, Surrey 1805–10; V. of Chobham 1810–34; took private pupils 1797–1822; P.C. of St. John’s, Bedford row, London 1824–6; R. of Witney, Oxfordshire 3 April 1834 to death; a very well known member of the evangelical sch.; author of Letters on the atonement 1804; Conversations on infant baptism 1819, 3 ed. 1838; A treatise on the atonement 1828; Secession from the church of England considered in a letter 1836. d. Witney 20 June 1853. J. Jerram’s Memoirs of rev. C. Jerram (1855), portrait.
JERRAM, Jane E. (dau. of Mr. Holme). (m. William Jerram of Derby, then of Bannell’s farm, Etwall, Derby); managed the dairy and other farm affairs; known by the name of The Pale Star; author of My three aunts 1838; My father’s house; The pearly gates; Simple stories 1841; The children’s own story book, 3 ed. 1843; living near Derby 1873. S. T. Hall’s Biog. sketches (1873) 296–7.
JERRARD, George Birch (son of Joseph Jerrard, major general, d. 23 Nov. 1858 aged 85). Published Mathematical researches. Bristol 1832–5; An essay on the resolution of equations 1858. d. Long Stratton rectory, Norfolk 23 Nov. 1863.
JERROLD, Douglas William (only son of Samuel Jerrold, manager of Sheerness theatre, d. Jany. 1820). b. Greek st. Soho, London 3 Jany. 1803; ed. at Sheerness; served on board H.M.S. Namur guardship 1813–15; apprenticed to Gabriel Sidney of Northumberland st. Strand, printer 1816; produced More frightened than hurt, at Sadler’s Wells theatre 30 April 1821; wrote pieces for the Coburg theatre 1825; wrote Black-eyed Susan or all in the Downs, best nautical drama ever written, produced at Surrey theatre 8 June 1829 for which he received £70 from Elliston, it ran 300 nights; wrote The mutiny at the Nore, played at Pavilion, Coburg and Queen’s theatres 1830; joint manager with W. J. Hammond of Strand theatre 1 May 1836 to 17 Sep. 1836; wrote the Bubbles of the day, Covent Garden 25 Feb. 1842; The prisoner of war, Drury Lane 8 Feb. 1842; started the Illuminated Mag. 1843; wrote Time works wonders, which ran at the Haymarket from 26 April 1845 for about 90 nights; edited Douglas Jerrold’s Shilling Magazine 7 vols. 1845–8; editor and chief proprietor of Douglas Jerrold’s Weekly newspaper 1846, it became the Weekly News; contributed to Punch from No. 2, 24 July 1841 to death; edited Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper 1852 to death; founded The Mulberries 1824, The Whittington at 37 Arundel st. Strand 1846, it ceased 1873, The Museum 1847 and other literary clubs; author of Men of character 3 vols. 1838; Punch’s Letters to his son 1843; The story of a feather 1844; Punch’s Complete letter writer 1845; Mrs. Caudle’s curtain lectures 1846; The chronicles of Clovernook 1845; A man made of money 1849; Heads of the people 1852; The writings of D. Jerrold 8 vols. 1854 and 4 vols. 1863–4. d. Kilburn priory, St. John’s Wood, London 8 June 1857. bur. Norwood cemetery 15 June, portrait by Sir Daniel Macnee in National portrait gallery. W. B. Jerrold’s Life of D. Jerrold (1859), portrait; G. Hodder’s Memories of my time (1870) 4–58, 108–20, 126–39; Illust. Rev. iii 673–81 (1872), portrait; R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age, i 291–304 (1844); Quarterly Mag. of Oddfellows, i 198–208 (1858); E. Yates’ Recollections, i 291–4, ii 351 (1884).
Note.—There is a portrait of him by John Leech in his two-page cartoon, called “Mr. Punch’s fancy ball” in Punch 9 Jany. 1847, where he is represented as playing the drum in the orchestra. His first contribution to Punch entitled Punch and Peel appeared in No. 2, 24 July 1841, he first used the signature of Q. on 13 Sep. In Alfred Bunn’s A word with Punch 1847 Jerrold is spoken of as Wronghead and is stated to have been hissed off the stage.
JERROLD, Evelyn Douglas (son of the succeeding). b. about 1850; correspondent in Paris of a London daily paper; translated From Paris to Cayenne. By C. Delescluze 1872; edited with S. Jerrold At home in Paris. By W. B. Jerrold 1884. d. St. John’s road, Highgate hill 16 May 1885.
JERROLD, William Blanchard (eld. son of Douglas W. Jerrold 1803–57). b. London 23 Dec. 1826; ed. at Brompton gr. sch. and at Boulogne; wrote in Douglas Jerrold’s Weekly Newspaper 1846; wrote papers on The literature of the poor, in Daily News 1846; described the Paris exhibition of 1855 for Daily News, Illustrated London News and Athenæum; spent half of each year in Paris 1855 to death; edited Lloyd’s Weekly London News 8 June 1857 to death; wrote Cool as a cucumber, farce produced at Lyceum theatre 24 March 1851, Beau Brummell the king of Calais, Lyceum 11 April 1859, Chatterbox drama, St. James’s 30 Nov. 1859 and Cupid in waiting, comedy, Royalty 17 July 1871; founded English branch of the International literary association; edited under name of Fin-Bec, Knife and Fork 8 numbers 1871 and new series 7 numbers 1872; author of Two lives, a novel 2 vols. 1862; A book for the beach 2 vols. 1863; At home in Paris 1864, several editions; The children of Lutetia 2 vols. 1864; London a pilgrimage, illustrated by Gustave Doré 1872; The life of Napoleon III. 4 vols. 1874–82; The life of G. Cruikshank 2 vols. 1882. d. 27 Victoria st. Westminster 10 March 1884. bur. Norwood cemetery 13 March. G. Hodder’s Memories of my time (1870) 394–418; J. Hatton’s Journalistic London (1882) 196 portrait; Illustrated Review, v 267–73 (1873), portrait; Graphic, xxix 368 (1884), portrait.
JERSEY, George Child-Villiers, 5 Earl of (elder son of 4 Earl of Jersey 1735–1805). b. Middleton park near Bicester 19 Aug. 1773; styled viscount Villiers 1773 to 1805 when he succeeded; ed. at Harrow and St. John’s coll. Camb., M.A. 1794, D.C.L. Oxf. 1810; took name of Child before Villiers 1 Dec. 1819; lord chamberlain of the household 15 July to 22 Nov. 1830 and 15 Dec. 1834 to 18 April 1835; P.C. 19 July 1830; G.C.H. 1834; master of the horse 1841–6 and 1 March to 28 Dec. 1852; won the One thousand guineas and the Oaks with Cobweb 1824, the Derby with Middleton 1825, with Mameluke 1827 and with Bay Middleton 1836. d. 38 Berkeley sq. London 3 Oct. 1859. bur. Middleton Stoney. Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 269–74; New Sporting Mag., x 302 (1836), portrait; Sporting Times 21 Feb. 1885 pp. 5–6; J. E. Doyle’s Official baronage, ii 261 (1886), portrait.
Note.—One of the best riders of his time; his name is recorded in a song called The Billesden Copley Hunt, an account of a run in Leicestershire 24 Feb. 1800.
JERSEY, George Augustus Frederick Child-Villiers, 6 Earl of (eld. son of the preceding). b. 38 Berkeley sq. London 4 April 1808; styled viscount Villiers 1808–59 when he succeeded; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1837; lieut. Oxfordshire yeomanry 16 June 1829, major 5 May 1855 to death; M.P. Rochester 1830–1, Minehead 1831–2, Honiton 1832–5, Weymouth 1837–41, Cirencester 1844–52; contested Cirencester 1852. d. Royal Crescent hotel, Brighton 24 Oct. 1859. bur. Middleton Stoney.
JERSEY, Sarah Sophia Child-Villiers, Countess of (eld. dau. of 10 earl of Westmoreland 1759–1841). b. 4 March 1785; heiress of Robert Child of Osterley park d. 1819; a ruler of society from 1815 to 1855; one of the leading lady patronesses of Almacks many years, and a professional beauty; popularly known as Queen Sarah; the head of Childs’s bank, London 1819 to death; had a scene with lord Durham at the drawing room 24 Feb. 1831; (m. at Gretna Green 23 May 1804 George Villiers 5 earl of Jersey 1773–1859). d. 38 Berkeley sq. London 26 Jany. 1867. bur. in family vault in church of Middleton Stoney 2 Feb., personalty sworn under £300,000, 1 June 1867. C. C. F. Greville’s Memoirs, i 12–13, ii 64, 119, 126 (1874); Burke’s Portrait gallery, ii 45 (1833), portrait.
JERVIS, George F. b. England 1784; appeared at Park theatre, New York as Vanderdecken in The Flying Dutchman 1825; appeared at Arch st. theatre, Philadelphia 1 Sep. 1826 as Marshal Beaumont in The French Spy. d. Philadelphia 25 March 1851.
JERVIS, George Ritso. b. Madras 8 Oct. 1794; ed. at Marlow, Woolwich and Addiscombe; ensign Bombay engineers 8 June 1811, col. 16 Aug. 1843 to death; founded the Engineers’ Institution in India 1823; held chief command of engineer corps 9 years; active coadjutor of Mountstuart Elphinstone in spreading education in India; A.I.C.E. 1841; edited The works of Hāfiz 1828; translated into Maratha, Lord Brougham’s Preliminary treatise on the objects, advantages and pleasures of science 1829. d. Boulogne 14 Oct. 1851. Min. of proc. of instit. of C.E., xi 106–109 (1852).
JERVIS, Henry. b. 1797; ensign 84 foot 19 Dec. 1811; captain 72 foot 1826, major 27 Sep. 1842 to 8 March 1850; lieut. col. provisional battalion at Chatham 8 March 1850 to 17 May 1864; col. 94 foot 8 March 1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. 11 Bloomsbury sq. London 5 Feb. 1879.
JERVIS, Sir John (2 son of Thomas Jervis, chief justice of Chester, d. 6 Aug. 1838 aged 69). b. 12 Jany. 1802; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb.; barrister M.T. 6 Feb. 1824, bencher 1837–50; leader of North Wales and Chester circuit; M.P. Chester 1832–50; granted a patent of precedence 1837; solicitor general 4 July 1846; attorney general 7 July 1846 to 15 July 1850; knighted at Buckingham palace 1 Aug. 1846; the acts 11 & 12 Vict. cc. 42, 43, 44, referring to justices of the peace are known as Jervis’s acts; serjeant at law 16 July 1850; chief justice of common pleas 16 July 1850 to death; P.C. 14 Aug. 1850; an originator of The Jurist weekly paper 14 Jany. 1837 and a principal contributor to it; pres. of commission for inquiring into system of pleading in common law courts 13 May 1850; edited Archbold’s Summary of the law relative to pleading and evidence in criminal cases, 4 ed. 1831, also the 5, 6, 7 and 8 eds.; author of A practical treatise on the office and duties of coroners 1829, 5 ed. 1888; author with Edward Young of Reports of cases in the courts of exchequer and exchequer chamber 3 vols. 1828–30; with C. Crompton of Reports of cases in the courts of exchequer and exchequer chamber 2 vols. 1832–3. d. 47 Eaton sq. London 1 Nov. 1856. Law Mag. and Review, ii 302–7 (1857).
JERVIS, Thomas Best (2 son of John Jervis of H.E.I.C.S.) b. Jaffnapatam, Ceylon 2 Aug. 1796; ed. Addiscombe; learnt Hindustani and Mahratta; ensign Bombay Engineers 1 June 1813; surveyed South Concan 1820; superintendent engineer Bombay presidency May 1835–9 and of Northern provinces 1839–41; retired from H.E.I.C. service 31 Dec. 1841; established a private lithographic press for printing maps of India, etc. 1843; produced with rapidity map of Russia for Crimean expedition 1854; the originator of the Topographical and statistical depot of the war office, of which he was the first director March 1855; conducted first topographical corps and surveyed the Euphrates valley, etc. F.R.S. 15 March 1838, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.A.S.; edited C. A. A. von Huegel’s Travels in Kashmir 1845; author of Geographical and statistical memoir of the Konkun. Calcutta 1840; India in relation to Great Britain, its future administration 1853. d. 9 Adelphi ter. Strand, London 3 April 1857. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xiv pp. liv–lx (1858); English Cyclop. Suppl. (1872) 719.
JERVIS, William Henley (2 son of Hugh Nicholas Pearson, dean of Salisbury, d. 1856 aged 79). b. Oxford 29 June 1813; ed. at Mitcham, Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838; R. of St. Nicholas, Guildford 1837–56; preb. of collegiate church of Heytesbury, Wilts. 1844 to death; lived in France 1856–62; assumed surname of Jervis in lieu of Pearson by r.l. 22 May 1865; author of The student’s France 1862, 2 ed. 1884; The Gallican church, a history of the church of France from the concordat of Bologna to the revolution 2 vols. 1872; The Gallican church and the revolution 1882. d. 28 Holland park, London 27 Jany. 1883. bur. in Sonning churchyard.
JERVIS-WHITE-JERVIS, Henry (3 son of sir Henry Meredyth Jervis-White-Jervis, 2 baronet 1793–1869). b. 15 March 1825; ed. at Harrow and R.M. academy, Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. Dec. 1844, lieut. col. 30 Dec. 1867 to 24 Dec. 1870 when he retired; contested Harwich 1857; M.P. for Harwich 18 March 1859 to 24 March 1880; author of History of Corfu and of the Ionian islands 1852; Manual of field operations, for officers in the army 1852; The rifle-musket, a treatise on the Enfield-Pritchett-rifle 1854; Ireland under British rule 1868. d. Felixstowe, Suffolk 22 Sep. 1881.
JERVIS-WHITE-JERVIS, Marian (3 dau. of Wm. Campbell of Fairfield, Ayrshire). (m. 16 Dec. 1818 Sir Henry Meredyth Jervis-White-Jervis, 2 baronet, commander R.N. b. 1793, d. 1869); edited Paintings and celebrated painters 2 vols. 1854; author of Gleanings, poems. Paris 1840; Tales of the boyhood of great painters 1853. d. Blackgang, Isle of Wight 8 March 1861. Reg. and Mag. of Biography, May 1869 p. 390.
JERVISE, Andrew (son of Andrew Jarvis, coachman and soldier). b. Brechin, Forfarshire 28 July 1820; a compositor at Brechin 1833 and at Edinburgh 1837–41; a student in painting Edinb. 1842; a teacher of drawing at Brechin 1846; sold 20 of his pictures at Brechin 1847 for £75; examiner of registers under Registration act of 1854, from 1 Jany. 1856 to death at £200 a year; author of The history and traditions of the land of the Lindsays 1853, 2 ed. 1882; Memorials of Angus and the Mearns 1861, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1885; Epitaphs and inscriptions from burial grounds and old buildings in the north-east of Scotland 2 vols. 1875–9. d. Brechin 12 April 1878. A. Jervise’s Epitaphs, vol. ii (1879), Memoir pp. ix–lxx.
JERVOIS, William. b. 1784; ensign 89 foot 7 April 1804; captain 53 foot 26 Dec. 1822 to 17 Sep. 1823 when placed on h.p.; colonel 76 foot 10 May 1853 to death; general 3 Aug. 1860; K.H. 1835. d. Portland place, Bath 5 Nov. 1862.
JERVOISE, Sir Jervoise Clarke Clarke-, 2 Baronet (son of rev. sir S. Clarke-Jervoise d. 1852). b. Kensington 28 April 1804; M.P. South Hants. 1857–68. d. Idsworth park, Horndean, Hants. 1 April 1889.
JERWOOD, James (son of Mr. Jerwood of Poughill, Devon, blacksmith). Usher at Honiton gr. sch.; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1842; barrister M.T. 10 June 1836; assistant tithe commissioner for Devon; recorder of South Molton 7 Feb. 1860 to death; practised at Exeter to death; published A lecture on the new planet Neptune and its discovery 1849; A dissertation on the rights to the sea shore and to the soil and beds of tidal harbours 1850. d. 1 Bedford circus, Exeter 19 Jany. 1877. Solicitors’ Journal, xxi 282 (1877).
JESSE, Edward (3 son of rev. Wm. Jesse, V. of Hutton-Cranswick, Yorkshire 1738–1814). b. Hutton-Cranswick parsonage 14 Jany. 1780; clerk in the San Domingo office 1798; private sec. to lord Dartmouth president of board of control 1801; comr. of hackney coaches 1815–31 when office abolished; gentleman of the Ewery at Windsor castle 1821–31 when office abolished; deputy surveyor of woods and forests 1822–31; author of Gleanings in natural history 1 Ser. 1832, 2 Ser. 1834, 3 Ser. 1835; Scenes and tales of country life 1844, 5 ed. 1853; Anecdotes of dogs 1846, 2 ed. 1858; Favourite haunts and rural studies 1847; Lectures on natural history 1861, 2 ed. 1863. d. 16 Belgrave place, Brighton 28 March 1868, bust placed in the Pavilion, Brighton 1865. Sylvanus Redivivus. By M. Houstoun (1889) 1 et seq., portrait; F. Ross’s Celebrities of the Yorkshire Wolds (1878) 88–9.
JESSE, John (elder son of John Jesse 1759–1817). b. Manchester 6 Jany. 1801; sheriff of co. Denbigh 1856; F.L.S. 21 Jany. 1823; F.R.S. 5 May 1842, F.R.A.S. d. Llanbedr hall near Ruthin, Denbigh 23 Sep. 1863.
JESSE, John Heneage (only son of Edward Jesse 1780–1868). b. 1815; ed. at Eton 1820–6; clerk in secretary’s department of the admiralty, Whitehall, London 1830–67; published Memoirs of the court of England during the reign of the Stuarts 4 vols. 1840, new ed. 1855 and 1857; Memoirs of the court of England from the revolution in 1688 to the death of George the Second 3 vols. 1843; George Selwyn and his contemporaries 4 vols. 1843–44; Memoirs of the Pretenders and their adherents 2 vols. 1845; Literary and historical memorials of London 2 vols. 1847; London and its celebrities 2 vols. 1850; Memoirs of King Richard the 3rd and some of his contemporaries 1862; Memoirs of the life and reign of king George the third 3 vols. 1867. d. the Albany, Piccadilly, London 7 July 1874. Sylvanus Redivivus. By M. Houston (1889) p. 24 et seq.
JESSE, William (only son of W. Jesse, V. of Margarelting, Essex). b. 27 March 1809; ensign 59 foot 9 April 1825; lieut. 46 foot 24 July 1835; captain 75 foot 26 Aug. 1837 to 6 April 1838 when placed on h.p.; sold out 1844; translator of H. de Crignelle’s Le Morvan, its wild sports, vineyards and forests 1851; J. P. Ferrier’s Caravan journeys and wanderings in Persia 1856; J. P. Ferrier’s History of the Afghans 1858; author of Notes of a half-pay in search of health, or Russia, Circassia and the Crimea 2 vols. 1841; The life of George Brummell, esq. 2 vols. 1844, new ed. 1854, new ed. 2 vols. 1885; Russia and the war 1854; resided at Maisonette, Ingatestone near Chelmsford. d. 1871.
JESSEL, Sir George (youngest son of Zadok Aaron Jessel of 1 Savile row, London, diamond merchant, d. 1865). b. London 13 Feb. 1824; ed. at Kew and Univ. coll. London, fellow 1846; B.A. London 1843, M.A. 1844, a senator 1862 to death, vice chancellor 26 May 1880 to death; barrister L.I. 4 May 1847, bencher 19 April 1865 to death, treasurer 1883; leading junior in the Rolls court; Q.C. 30 March 1865; M.P. for Dover 1868–73; solicitor general 10 Nov. 1871 to 30 Aug. 1873 when he made about £20,000 a year; knighted at Osborne 21 Feb. 1872; master of the Rolls 30 Aug. 1873 to 1 Nov. 1875, being the first Jewish judge; a judge of high court of judicature, chancery division 1 Nov. 1875 to 27 Aug. 1881; member of court of appeal 1 Nov. 1875 to death; P.C. 30 Aug. 1873; a comr. of patents 1873 to death; F.R.S. 25 Nov. 1880; sat in court 16 March 1883. d. 10 Hyde park gardens, London 21 March 1883. bur. Willesden cemet. 23 March, bust by W. R. Ingram outside lord chief justice’s court in courts of justice, unveiled by lord chancellor 28 Nov. 1888. A generation of judges (1886) 171–82; Analysis and digest of the decisions of Sir G. Jessel. By A. P. Peter (1883); Times 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 30 March 1883; I.L.N. lix 483, 484 (1871) portrait, lxxxii 317 (1883) portrait.
Note.—He was shot at by rev. Henry John Dodwell as he was entering the Rolls court 22 Feb. 1878, Dodwell was tried 15 March and acquitted on the ground of insanity.
JESSOP, John. b. 1779; ensign 44 foot 1798; captain 15 June 1804 to 1 June 1821 when placed on half pay; served through Peninsular war; major in the army 4 June 1814; C.B. 22 June 1815. d. Butterley hall, Derbyshire 13 Sep. 1869 aged 90.
JESSOP, Thomas (son of Wm. Jessop of Sheffield, steel smelter). b. Sheffield 31 Jany. 1804; iron and steel manufacturer with his father and brothers at Sheffield 1830, the business became one of the largest in England, was left sole surviving partner 1871; converted business into a limited liability co. at Brightside works, Sheffield 1875, chairman of the co. 1875 to death; works stood on 27 acres of ground; built and furnished at cost of £30,000 the Jessop hospital for women 1878; mayor and master cutler of Sheffield 1863; president Sheffield Birthday club. d. Endcliffe grange, Sheffield 30 Nov. 1887. bur. Eccleshall ch. 3 Dec.; gross value of personal estate in England sworn at £656,449. Sheffield Independent 1 Dec. 1887 p. 2, 5 Dec. p. 2.
JESSOP, William Henry Bowlestone (eld. son of James Jessop of Crayford, Kent). Ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; published A complete decimal system of money and measures 1855; author of Flindersland and Sturtland, or the inside and outside of Australia 2 vols. 1862. d. Doreh, Papua 3 Feb. 1862. G.M. xix 652 (1865).
Note.—His death was not announced in the Times until 26 Aug. 1865.
JESTON, Thomas Ward. b. Royal gram. sch. Henley-on-Thames 3 July 1790; studied at Guy’s hospital; assistant surgeon second battalion of 36 foot 9 Sep. 1813 to 1814 when battalion disbanded; served in the Peninsula and France 1813–14, medals for 4 battles; surgeon in practice at Henley 1817, retired 1883; invented improved method of collecting juice of opium poppy 1823; mayor of Henley 5 times 1834–81. d. Henley 17 July 1886. Midland Medical Miscellany 1 Dec. 1883 pp. 353–5, portrait.
JEUNE, Francis (eld. son of Francis Jeune of Jersey). b. St. Brelade, Jersey 22 May 1806; ed. at St. Servan’s coll. Rennes and Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830, B.C.L. and D.C.L. 1834; scholar of his coll. 1822, fellow 1830–7, tutor 1830–4, master 22 Dec. 1843 to Jany. 1864, admitted master 26 Dec. 1843, the validity of his election to the mastership was afterwards disputed; master King Edward’s sch. Birmingham 1834–8; dean of Jersey and R. of St. Heliers 1838–44; Victoria college, St. Heliers, was built on a plan recommended by him; canon of Gloucester 1843–64; V. of Taynton, Gloucs. 1843–64; comr. for inquiring into state of univ. and colleges of Oxford 31 Aug. 1850, wrote greater part of the report; member of hebdomadal council 1854–64; vice chancellor of univ. of Oxf. 1858–9; dean of Lincoln 18 Jany. 1864; bishop of Peterborough 21 May 1864 to death, consecrated 29 June; author of Was Christ crucified for you? a sermon 1863, 3 ed. 1864. d. Whitby 21 Aug. 1868. bur. Peterborough cath. yard 28 Aug. Guardian 26 Aug. 1868 p. 956, 2 Sep. p. 979; Times 22 Aug. 1868 p. 7; I.L.N. 28 May 1864 p. 512, portrait.
JEVONS, William. b. Staffordshire 1794; Unitarian minister; author of Systematic morality 1827; Elements of astronomy 1828 and other books. d. Liverpool 1873.
JEVONS, William Stanley (9 child of Thomas Jevons, iron merchant at Liverpool). b. 14 Alfred st. Liverpool 1 Sep. 1835; ed. at univ. coll. London, fellow 1864; M.A. univ. of London 1862; LLD. Edinb. 1876; assayer to the Sydney mint, N.S.W. 1854–9; tutor at Owen’s college, Manchester 1863; professor of logic, mental and moral philosophy and Cobden lecturer in political economy, Owen’s coll. Manchester, May 1866 to Oct. 1876; professor of political economy at univ. coll. London 1876–80; F.R.S. 6 June 1872; lived at 2 The Chestnuts, West Heath road, Hampstead 1876 to death; author of Remarks on the Australian gold fields 1859; Pure logic or the logic of quality apart from quantity 1864; Value of gold 1863; The coal question 1865, 2 ed. 1866; The principles of science, a treatise on logic 2 vols. 1874, 2 ed. 1877; Money and the mechanism of exchange 1875; Primer of political economy 1878; Investigations in currency and finance 1884; drowned when bathing at Galley Hill, Belverhythe near Hastings 13 Aug. 1882. bur. Hampstead cemetery 18 Aug. Letters of W. S. Jevons ed. by his wife (1886), portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxv, pp. i–xi (1883); Baines’s Hampstead (1890) 369–70; Biograph, v 426 (1881).
JEWELL, Jacob. Owner of the largest travelling bazaar; a tenant under Wm. Holland at North Woolwich gardens about 15 years; the only Israelite itinerant showman travelling the English and continental fairs for over 60 years. d. Sep. 1884. bur. Jewish cemetery, West Ham.
JEWERS, Richard Francis. Entered navy June 1803; severely wounded in a fire ship in Aix roads, April 1809; retired commander 7 Aug. 1861; had a grant from Patriotic soc.; naval knight of Windsor 21 Jany. 1846, governor of the naval knights 7 May 1860 to death. d. Traver’s college, Windsor castle 14 Nov. 1872.
JEWISON, Christopher. b. 1785; L.S.A. 1836, M.R.C.S. 1844; coroner for liberty of honour of Pontefract 1817 to death. d. Rothwell, Leeds 5 March 1870.
JEWITT, Arthur (eld. son of Arthur Jewitt, cutler). b. Sheffield 7 March 1772; apprentice to his father as a cutler 1786–93; master of schools at Sheffield 1793, at Chesterfield 1794 and at Kimberworth 1814–18; resided at Duffield near Derby 1818–38; author of The history of Lincoln 1810; The history of Buxton 1811; The Northern star, or Yorkshire magazine 3 vols. 1817–18; The Sylph, or Lady’s magazine for Yorkshire 1818; The handbook of practical perspective 1840; Handbook of geometry 1842. d. Headington near Oxford 7 March 1852. William Smith’s Old Yorkshire (1883) 147–51, portrait.
JEWITT, Llewellyn Frederick William (17 and youngest child of the preceding). b. Kimberworth near Rotherham, Yorkshire 24 Nov. 1816; went to London as a drawer and engraver 1838; illustrated Charles Knight’s publications, Pictorial Times, Illustrated London News, etc.; managed illustrations of Punch about 1848; chief librarian of Plymouth public library 1849–53; started the Derby Telegraph at Derby 1853, editor 1853–68; started The Reliquary 1860, editor 1860 to death; F.S.A. 27 Jany. 1853; formed a collection of china, sold 1871; granted civil list pension of £70, 16 June 1885; author of Rifle and volunteer rifle corps 1860; The Wedgwoods 1865; The life of William Hutton 1869; A history of Plymouth 1873; The ceramic art of Great Britain 2 vols. 1878, 2 ed. 1883; The life of Jacob Thompson 1882. d. the Hollies, Duffield, Derby 5 June 1886. bur. Winster 9 June. W. H. Goss’ Life of Llewellyn Jewitt (1889), portrait; Proc. Soc. of Antiq. xi 370–1 (1885–7); The Biograph, Feb. 1882 pp. 115–24.
JEWITT, Thomas Orlando Sheldon (brother of the preceding). b. Derbyshire 1799; wood engraver, illustrated with woodcuts Rev. A. G. Jewitt’s Wanderings of Memory 1815; while at Oxford 1838 &c. illustrated J. H. Parker’s architectural publications; employed as an artist by the Archæological Institute; had many pupils. d. 20 Clifton villas, Camden sq. London 30 May 1869.
JEWSBURY, Geraldine Endsor (dau. of Thomas Jewsbury of Manchester, merchant, d. 1840). b. Measham, Derbyshire 1812; her parents removed to Manchester 1818; great friend of Thomas Carlyle and his wife from 1841, many of Mrs. Carlyle’s letters are addressed to her, as are also Lady Theodore Martin’s Letters on Shakspere’s Female characters; lived in Chelsea 1854–66, at Sevenoaks, Kent 1866–80; granted civil list pension of £40, 19 June 1874; author of Zoe, the history of two lives 3 vols. 1845; The half-sisters 2 vols. 1848, three editions; Marian Withers 3 vols. 1851; The history of an adopted child 1853; Constance Herbert 3 vols. 1855; The sorrows of gentility 2 vols. 1856; Angelo or the pine forest 1856; Right or Wrong 2 vols. 1859. d. in a private hospital at Burwood place, Edgware road, London 23 Sep. 1880. bur. in Lady Morgan’s vault, Brompton cemet. J. Evans’ Lancashire authors (1850) 140–4.
JEWSON, Frederick Bowen. b. Edinburgh 26 July 1823, where he performed in public from 1828; studied at R. Acad. of music, London 1834, King’s scholar 1837, professor of pianoforte 1840–89; professor of music, St. Mary’s hall, Brighton; composer of Overtures for various dramas; Six grand studies for the piano 1869; Douze etudes melodiques et brillantes; Chanson d’ Amour for piano 1876; The mountain stream, caprice 1876. d. 21 Manchester st. Manchester sq. London 28 May 1891. Cazalet’s Royal academy of music (1854) 298.
JEX, Johnson (son of Wm. Jex, blacksmith). b. Billingford, Norfolk about 1778, a blacksmith there and at Letheringsett near Holt to 1822 when he commenced employing workmen; made a gold chronometer for sir Jacob Astley, with a detached escapement and compensating balance before he ever heard of the detached escapement; learnt French when about 60; invented a lathe by which he could cut the teeth of wheels mathematically correct into any number up to 2000 by means of a dividing plate; an iron and brass founder, a glass blower, a maker of mathematical instruments, barometers, thermometers, gun barrels, air guns, &c. d. Letheringsett, Norfolk 5 Jany. 1852. Norfolk News 17 Jany. 1852 p. 4; Athenæum 24 Jany. 1852 pp. 123–4; A. Young’s General view of Norfolk (1804) 73–4.
JEZREEL, Esther, name assumed by Clarissa Rogers (dau. of Edward Rogers, sawyer, New Brompton, Kent). b. 1860; a member of The New and latter house of Israel, made preaching tours in America 1878 and 1879; (m. 1879 James Jershom Jezreel 1840–85); succeeded her husband as head of the sect 1 March 1885 and was known as queen Esther the mother of Israel; issued The messenger of wisdom and Israel’s guide 1887, a monthly publication. d. the Woodlands, Gillingham, Rochester 30 June 1888.
JEZREEL, James Jershom, name assumed by James White, b. 1840; a private in 16 regt. at Chatham; joined The New house of Israel or Joanna Southcottians 15 Oct. 1875, dismissed 26 Dec.; founded The New and latter house of Israel 1875; in India with his regt. 1876, bought out, returned to England under the name of James Jershom Jezreel, claiming to have received a revelation contained in The Flying Scroll. (m. 1879 Clarissa Rogers i.e. Esther Jezreel 1860–88); erected a large temple on Chatham hill, New Brompton; had a numerous following who put their money into a common fund; published Extracts from the Flying Roll vol. i three parts 1879–81. d. the Woodlands, Gillingham, Rochester 1 March 1885. Pall Mall Gazette 6 March 1885 p. 12, 2 July 1888 p. 10; N. and Q. 29 Jany. 1887 p. 98.
JOBBINS, John Richard. Surveyor, mechanical draughtsman and lithographer at 3 Warwick court, Holborn, London about 1836 to death; invented method of etching with a brush upon stone and zinc; illustrated Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. with his new process many years; Assoc. B.A. Assoc. 1852; author with F. T. Dollman of An analysis of ancient domestic architecture in Great Britain 1860. d. Warwick court, Holborn, London 27 Feb. 1866.
JOBSON, Rev. Frederick James (son of John Jobson d. 1875 aged 88). b. Northwich, Cheshire 6 July 1812; Wesleyan minister at Patrington, Yorkshire 1834, at City road, London 1837–40, 1849–52 and 1861–4, at Spitalfields, London 1840–3, at Leeds, Manchester, Bradford and Huddersfield 1843–61; attended Australian conference at Sydney, Jany. 1861; book steward of W.M. organisation 1864 to death; elected pres. of the conference 5 Aug. 1869; author of Chapel and school architecture 1850; America and American methodism 1857; Perfect love for Christian believers 1864. d. 21 Highbury place, Holloway road, London 4 Jany. 1881. Life. By Rev. B. Gregory (1884), portrait; Evans’s Lancashire authors (1850) 136–40; I.L.N. 14 Aug. 1869 p. 165, portrait.
JOBSON, Robert. b. Sheffield 1 April 1817; an ironfounder near Dudley about 1840 to death; made a large portion of the castings for the Great exhibition of 1851 and for the Crystal palace at Sydenham; invented valuable improvements in mechanical engineering, including machinery for moulding. d. near Dudley 1 Aug. 1872.
JOCELYN, Robert (eld. son of 3 earl of Roden 1788–1870). b. Pall Mall, London 20 Feb. 1816; styled viscount Jocelyn 29 June 1820 to death; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 24 May 1833; lieut. 15 hussars 1839 to 19 June 1841 when he sold out; military sec. on staff of lord Saltoun in China 1842; contested Leeds 1841; M.P. King’s Lynn 10 Feb. 1842 to death; a sec. of board of control 17 Feb. 1845 to 6 July 1846; lieut. col. commandant of East Essex militia 25 Feb. 1853 to death; published Six months with the Chinese expedition 2 ed. 1841. d. Carlton gardens, London 12 Aug. 1854. bur. Sawbridgeworth, Herts.
JODRELL, Sir Richard Paul, 2 Baronet (eld. son of Richard Paul Jodrell, dramatist 1745–1831). b. Marylebone, London 26 June 1781; ed. at Eton and Magd. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1806; barrister L.I. 26 Nov. 1803; succeeded his maternal grand-uncle Sir John Lombe 27 May 1817; author of Carmina Selecta 1810; Dover, ancient and modern, a poem. Dover 1841. d. 64 Portland place, London 14 Jany. 1861.
JOEL, Julian Von. b. 5 May 1785; German jödler; first appeared in London as a siffleur or whistler of tunes on walking sticks at the Sans Souci, Leicester place, Leicester sq. about July 1829; performed at Vauxhall gardens 1830, in the provinces, and at the Cyder Cellars and Evans’s, Covent Garden; sold cigars at Evans’s 1852 to death; his name is often mentioned in the first vol. of Punch 1841, is found in Albert Smith’s The adventures of Mr. Ledbury 1844 and in Mark Lemon’s comedy The Ladies club. d. 22 July 1865. Illustrated sporting news, iv 421, 422 (1865), portrait; Era 30 July 1865 p. 10.
JOHN, William. b. Narberth, Pembrokeshire, July 1845; student in R. sch. of naval architecture and marine engineering 1864; draughtsman, Admiralty 1867–72; made the calculations for the first curves of stability for a ship ever produced 1868; pointed out the dangerous construction of the Captain 1870 and the Atalanta 18—; assist. chief surveyor Lloyd’s Register 1872–81; general manager Barrow ship building and engineering co. 1881–8, when he designed and built the City of Rome 1881 known as the Atlantic Greyhound, and La Normandie 1882 the largest French liner; naval architect 101 Leadenhall st. London 1888–90; contributed papers to Trans. Instit. naval architects 1874 etc.; author of The masting of vessels. A report to the Committee of Lloyd’s Register. d. Madrid 26 Dec. 1890. D. Pollock’s Modern ship-building (1884) 124–6 portrait.
JOHNES, Arthur James (only son of Edward Johnes, M.D. of Garthmyl Issa near Montgomery). b. 4 Feb. 1808; ed. at Oswestry gr. sch. and London univ. 1828–9; barrister L.I. 30 Jany. 1835; judge of county courts, circuit 28 (Anglesey, Carnarvon & Merioneth), 13 March 1847, resigned Dec. 1870; a great supporter of the established ch. in Wales; a promoter of Cambrian quarterly Mag. 1830 in which he wrote under signature of Maelog; author of An essay on the causes which have produced dissent from the established church in Wales 1831, 3 ed. 1870; Suggestions for a reform of the court of chancery 1834; Philological proofs of the original unity and recent origin of human race 1843; Should the law of imprisonment for debt be abolished or amended? 1868; Is credit an evil? 1869. d. Garthmyl Issa 23 July 1871. bur. Berriew ch. Law Times, li 245, 263 (1871).
JOHNES, John (only son of John Johnes of Dolancothy near Llandilo, Carmarthenshire, d. 12 Sep. 1815). b. Dolancothy 6 Feb. 1800; ed. at Carmarthen and Lampeter gr. schs., at Bath and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. and M.A. 1829; barrister I.T. 18 Nov. 1831; judge of county courts, circuit 31 (Carmarthen, Cardigan and Pembroke), 13 March 1847, resigned Nov. 1861; recorder of Carmarthen, Dec. 1851 to Oct. 1872; chairman of Carmarthenshire quarter sessions 1853–72; shot by his butler at Caio, Carmarthenshire 19 Aug. 1876. Law Times, lxi 368 (1876).
JOHNS, Ambrose Bowden. b. Plymouth 1776; apprentice to Benjamin Robert Haydon, bookseller, Plymouth; bookseller at Plymouth; landscape painter, friend and fellow painter with J. M. W. Turner, some of his paintings have been sold as being by Turner; member of Plymouth soc. of artists and amateurs; exhibited 13 pictures at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st. 1814–46; some of his paintings are in the earl of Morley’s collection at Saltram. d. Plymouth 10 Dec. 1858. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire (1883) 77–81.
JOHNS, Charles Alexander (son of Henry Incledon Johns, banker, Devonport). b. Plymouth 31 Dec. 1811; F.L.S. 1836; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1841; chaplain National soc. training schs. Westminster 1842–4; head master Helston gram. sch. June 1843 to Dec. 1847; C. of Porthleven 1844–7; C. of Beenham, Berks. 1848–56; kept a school at Winton house, Winchester 1856 to death; first pres. Hampshire and Winchester scientific and lit. soc. 1870; author of A week at the Lizard 1848, 3 ed. 1874; Flowers of the field 2 vols. 1853; Birds’ nests. Anon. 1854, 2 ed. 1865; The governess. By A schoolmaster of twenty years standing 1855; Rambles about Paris 1859; British birds in their haunts 1862, 2 ed. 1879. d. Winton house, Winchester 28 June 1874.
JOHNS, Jasper Wilson (only son of Thomas Evan Johns of Cardiganshire). b. Dublin 1824; a civil engineer to 1854; captain commandant 3rd Montgomery rifle volunteers 14 Aug. 1860 to 11 Sep. 1865; partner in Bird & Co., iron merchants, London 1854; took an active part in promoting railways in Wales; contested Northallerton 1865 and 1868; M.P. North Eastern Warwickshire 1885–6; author of The Anglican cathedral church of St. James, Mount Zion, Jerusalem 1844. d. 16 Grenville place, Cromwell road, London 26 July 1889.
JOHNS, Richard (son of Wm. Johns, adjutant of Cornwall militia, d. 1834). b. Helston, Cornwall 5 Oct. 1805; 2 lieut. R.M. 1 Oct. 1825, captain 7 Aug. 1843 to death; author of Poems 1825; Legends and romances 3 vols. 1839; The schoolfellows or a by-way to fame 3 vols. 1841; The calendar of victory, a record of valour by sea and land 1855; The naval and military heroes of Great Britain 1860, another ed. of the previous work. d. Royal naval hospital, Stonehouse 6 Nov. 1851. G.M. xxxvi 671 (1851); Boase and Courtney’s Bibl Cornub. 277, 1248.
JOHNSON, Alexander Bryan. b. Gosport 29 May 1786; settled in Utica, N.Y., U.S. of America 1801; barrister; banker; author of The nature of value, capital, etc. New York 1813; The philosophy of human knowledge 1828; Physiology of the senses 1856; An encyclopædia of instruction 1857; Our monetary condition 1864. d. Utica 9 Sep. 1867. Appleton’s American Biog. iii 436 (1887).
JOHNSON, Charles. b. about 1793; M.R.C.S. Ireland 1815, F.R.C.S.I. 1818; F.K.Q.C.P.I. 1841; professor of midwifery in medical sch. of college of surgeons; founded with Henry Marsh an institution for diseases of children, in Pitt st. Dublin; master of the Lying in hospital, Dublin 1840; retired from practice 1864; author of Essays in Dublin hospital reports and in Cyclopædia of practical medicine. d. 24 Merrion sq. south, Dublin 19 June 1866.
JOHNSON, Charles. b. London 5 Oct. 1791; lecturer on botany 1819; professor of botany Guy’s hospital 1830–73; edited sir J. E. Smith’s English botany 2 ed. 1832; author of British poisonous plants 1856, 2 ed. 1861; with J. E. Sowerby The ferns of Great Britain 1855; The fern allies 1856; The grasses of Great Britain 1857–61. d. Camberwell 21 Sep. 1880. Journal of botany, xviii 351 (1880).
JOHNSON, Cuthbert William (son of Wm. Johnson of the Coalbrookdale china works). b. Widmore house, Bromley, Kent 28 Sep. 1799; employed in his father’s salt works at Heybridge, Essex; barrister G.I. 8 June 1836; F.R.S. 10 March 1842; took part in agitation on Public Health acts 1848; chairman Croydon local board of health; published works with his bro. Geo. W. Johnson; author of The use of crushed bones as manure 1836, three editions; The life of sir Edward Coke 2 vols. 1837; The laws of bills of exchange, notes, cheques, etc. 1837, 2 ed. 1839; The farmer’s encyclopædia 1842, his best work; with W. Shaw The farmer’s almanac and calendar 1840; with J. Hare The annual register of agricultural implements 1843–45. d. Waldronhurst, Croydon 8 March 1878. John Donaldson’s Agricultural Biog. (1854) 127–8; Academy, i 233 (1878).
JOHNSON, Daniel James. b. 1831 or 1832; civil engineer in London; superintendent of Kensal Green cemetery 1857–73. d. 170 Hornington road, Burton on Trent 24 Oct. 1885.
JOHNSON, Sir Edward (2 son of John Johnson). b. Drumgavesy, Ireland 1785; educ. Edinb. and Glasgow, M.D. Edinb. 1815; M.R.C.S. Lond. 1807; hospital mate in army July 1807; assist. surgeon 28 regt. Nov. 1807 and served in Sweden and the Peninsula where he was severely wounded; surgeon 2 bat. 39 regt. 1815–16; a physician at Weymouth 1816, retired 1821; K.C.S. 1835, K.C.C.S. 1847; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 July 1838. d. Greenhill, Weymouth 10 Jany. 1862. Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. iv 84–6 (1864).
JOHNSON, Edward John (youngest son of rev. Henry Johnson of Bywell, Northumberland). b. 1795; entered R.N. 1 May 1807; commanded the ‘Britomart’ 10 guns 4 March 1829 to 1831 when he was paid off; surveyed the Faroe islands for the admiralty 1831 etc.; member of magnetic compass committee of the admiralty 1838 etc.; captain 27 Dec. 1838; superintendent of compass department of R.N. 14 March 1842 to death; F.R.S. 10 May 1836; author of Practical illustrations of the necessity of ascertaining the deviations of the compass 1847. d. 13 Oxford terrace, Hyde park, London 7 Feb. 1853.
JOHNSON, Eli (son of Mr. Johnson of George row, Northampton). b. Northampton 1850; a cabinet maker, Northampton; a wood carver; studied at South Kensington and under J. E. Boehm, R.A.; sculptor Hugh st. Eccleston sq. London; executed for Northampton marble bust of Charles Gilpin, M.P., and busts of J. B. Gough, Dr. Robert Moffat and Henry Vincent; exhibited 3 pieces of sculpture at R.A. 1878–80; author of The honest Irishman or a tour in the British isles 1879. d. 45 Victoria road, Northampton 14 Jany. 1881. Northampton Mercury 15 Jany. 1881 p. 8.
JOHNSON, Ellen. Factory girl; author of The lord of the castle, a fairy legend. London, Darton & Co. 1861, 8o., 1/6. d. 1873.
JOHNSON, Francis. b. 1796; travelled in Italy and learnt Arabic from an Arab; professor of Sanscrit and Teloogoo at H.E.I.C. coll. Haileybury 1824 to 1845, of Sanscrit, Teloogoo and Bengali 1845 to Oct. 1855; author of The Sanskrit text of the first book of Hitopadésa 1840, 4 ed. 1864; Selections from the Mahábhárata 1842; A dictionary, Persian, Arabic and English 1852; The Gulistān of Sa’di 1863 in Persian. d. Hertford 29 Jany. 1876. bur. Great Amwell 4 Feb. Hertfordshire Mercury 12 Feb. 1876 p. 3.
JOHNSON, Frederick William. Ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., rowed stroke in the Cambridge boat when she won the Grand challenge cup at Henley 1851, also in the race against Oxford 1852; B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; C. of St. Nicholas, Yarmouth 1854–8; C. of St. John’s, Yarmouth 1858 to death. d. Yarmouth, Dec. 1859.
JOHNSON, George. One of the chief promoters of the Doncaster races from 1847 and the chief means of largely increasing value of the prizes; chairman of Doncaster race committee; never betted more than a few crowns and that on St. Leger only; superintended building new stand on Doncaster course. d. Doncaster 4 Nov. 1855. Sporting Rev. (1855) 419–21.
JOHNSON, George Henry Sacheverell (son of rev. Henry Johnson). b. Keswick, Cumberland 1808; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., Ireland scholar 1827, mathematical scholar 1831, double first 1829, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1833; fellow of his college 1829–55, Greek lecturer, chaplain and tutor 1842, bursar 1844, dean 1848; public examiner in the univ. 1834–50; F.R.S. 18 Jany. 1838; Savilian professor of astronomy 1839–42; White prof. of moral philosophy 1842–45; Whitehall preacher, Sep. 1852 to 1854; royal commissioner on univ. 1850 and parliamentary commissioner 1854; dean of Wells 27 March 1854 to death; V. of Wells 1855–70; author of Treatise on Optics 1836; Sermons preached in Wells cathedral 1857; author with C. J. Ellicott and F. C. Cook of The book of psalms: with a commentary 1880. d. Weston-super-Mare 4 Nov. 1881. bur. in the palm ch. yard, Wells cath. 10 Nov. Waagen’s Treasures of art, iii 112–20 (1854); Times 7 Nov. 1881 p. 9; Guardian 9 Nov. 1881 p. 1592.
JOHNSON, George William (brother of Cuthbert W. Johnson 1799–1878). b. Blackheath, Kent 4 Nov. 1802; in his father’s salt works; prepared Epsom salts from sea water; made experiments in gardening and in the manufacture of manures; barrister G.I. 8 June 1836; professor of moral and political economy in Hindoo coll. Calcutta 1839–42; edited in Calcutta the Englishman newspaper and government Gazette 1837–41; owner of the Fairfax MSS. published as the Fairfax Correspondence 4 vols. 1848–67; edited the Gardeners’ Almanack 1844–66; The Gardener’s Monthly Volume 12 vols. 1847; Cottage Gardener 1848, renamed Journal of horticulture 1851 when he edited it with R. Hogg to 1881; with his brother he printed An essay on the use of salt in agriculture 1821, 13 ed. 1838; Outlines of chemistry 1828; Paley’s Work 1839; author of A history of English gardening 1829; Memoirs of John Selden 1835; The stranger in India 1843; The principles of practical gardening 1845; A dictionary of gardening 1846; The British ferns 1857, 4 ed. 1861; with rev. W. W. Wingfield The poultry book 1853, 2 ed. 1856; with R. Hogg The wild flowers of Great Britain 1863. d. Waldronhurst, Croydon 29 Oct. 1886. Journal of horticulture, xiii 401–4, 424 (1887), portrait; Bookseller 6 Nov. 1886 p. 1181; Times 5 Nov. 1886 p. 6.
JOHNSON, Harry John. b. Birmingham 10 April 1826; was with sir C. Fellowes in Lycia 1840; studied under Samuel Lines, W. J. Müller and at the Clipstone st. acad. London; Assoc. Instit. Painters in W.C. 1868 and member 1870; exhibited 15 landscapes at R.A. 1859–80; some of his pictures are at South Kensington. d. 12 Loudoun road, St. John’s Wood, London 31 Dec. 1884.
JOHNSON, Henry. b. near London 1814; in employment of D. Appleton & Co. publishers, New York 20 years; partner with Robert Martin in the publication of serials, periodicals and illustrated books 1855, firm became Johnson, Fry & Co.; connected with Brooklyn real estate; identified with the boulevard running to Coney island. d. Gravesend, Long Island 27 Nov. 1872. American Annual Cyclop. for 1872 xii 634.
JOHNSON, Sir Henry Allen, 2 Baronet. b. Shelbourne, Nova Scotia 26 Sep. 1785; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810; A.D.C. to Prince of Orange during Peninsular war; knight of the military order of Wilhelm of the Netherlands; succeeded 18 March 1835. d. Southland, Isle of Wight 27 June 1860.
JOHNSON, Sir Henry Franks Frederic, 3 Baronet (eld. child of preceding). b. Bath 5 Feb. 1819; ed. at Winchester and Sandhurst; 2 lieut. 5 foot 22 Nov. 1836, major 5 Oct. 1849 to 15 Jany. 1856 when placed on h.p.; D.Q.M.G. in the Mauritius 31 Dec. 1855 to 18 July 1862; D.A.G. in Jamaica 2 Nov. 1866 to 1 April 1869; commanded forces in Windward and Leeward islands 1869–70; col. on the staff in command at Jamaica 1870–3; sold out 1873. d. Avranche, Normandy 20 June 1883.
JOHNSON, Henry Isaac. b. Cambridge; ed. at Christ’s coll. Camb., 30th wrangler 1852, B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; assistant master at Brighton college 1853–5; rector of Grey Institute, Port Elizabeth, Cape of Good Hope 1863–73; incumbent of Trinity ch. Port Elizabeth to 1873; espoused the cause of bishop Colenso, his church was the only one in Cape Colony that did not secede from the bishop’s rule; assistant master at Cheltenham college 1873–4; head master of Royal Institution school, Liverpool 1874–89. d. Penrhyn house, Ullet road, Liverpool 6 May 1892.
JOHNSON, James A. b. England 1820; choir master Holy Communion ch. New York 1846, solo tenor singer in oratorio music; compiled A tune book 1848; composer of The Offertory sentences set to music for four voices. New York 1862. d. Orange, New Jersey 1883. Appleton’s American Biog. iii 444 (1889).
JOHNSON, John. Ironfounder at 13 Lower Whitecross st. city of London 1826 to death; member of ward of Cripplegate without 1841 to death; sheriff of London 1836–7, alderman of Dowgate 1839–49, lord mayor 1845–6. d. Alfred terrace, Upper Holloway 12 Sep. 1858. I.L.N. vii 320 (1845) portrait, ix 125 (1846) portrait.
JOHNSON, John. b. 1801; studied in Italy 1836–40; built St. Saviour’s ch. Walmer 1846, Water colour gallery, Pall Mall; decorated H.M. theatre for Benjamin Lumley; built mansion for sir John Kelk at Tedworth, Wilts. 1878; with Mr. Meeson, Alexandra palace, which was burnt 9 June 1873; district surveyor East Hackney; a great fisherman; in 1866 he obtained the prize for the greatest weight of fish caught 550 lbs.; member of Piscatorial soc.; member of Thames angling preservation soc. and on the committee. d. 14 Buckingham st. Adelphi, London 28 Dec. 1878. The Builder (1874) 687–9, (1879) 53, 137; Fishing Gazette 3 Jany. 1879 p. 7.
JOHNSON, John James (3 son of William Johnson of The Pallant, Chichester, d. 1823). b. June 1812; ed. at Winchester; barrister M.T. 10 June 1836, bencher 5 May 1864 to death; recorder of Chichester, Aug. 1863 to death; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1864. d. 26 Gresham place, Belgrave sq. London 22 July 1890.
JOHNSON, John Mercer (son of a timber merchant). b. Liverpool 1818; ed. Northumberland county gram. sch. New Brunswick; barrister 1840; member of provincial legislature, postmaster general 1847, speaker of the house, and attorney general, solicitor general 1854; member of Quebec and London conferences which settled the confederation act of the Dominion of Canada 1864, 1867; member for Northumberland in Dominion parliament 1867. d. Northumberland, Canada 9 Nov. 1868. Appleton’s American Biog. iii 445 (1889).
JOHNSON, John Samuel Willes (eld. son of rev. Charles Johnson, preb. of Wells, d. 1841). b. South Stoke near Bath 3 July 1793; entered R.N. 1 Feb. 1807; commander 6 Feb. 1821, on h.p. from Aug. 1842; captain 9 Nov. 1846; served at capture of Algiers 1816 and in the first Chinese war 1841; M.P. for Montgomery district 4 May 1861 to death; author of The traveller’s guide through France, Italy and Switzerland 1828. d. Hannington hall, Highworth, Wiltshire 25 July 1863.
JOHNSON, Joseph. b. 1791; a brushmaker in or near Manchester; tried with Henry Hunt and 8 others at York assizes 16–27 March 1820 for conspiracy and unlawfully assembling in St. Peter’s Field, Manchester 16 Aug. 1819, sentenced to be imprisoned for one year in Lincoln castle 15 May 1820; author of A letter to H. Hunt esq. relating to certain accounts. Manchester 1822, 2 ed. 1822; A second letter to H. Hunt 1822. d. Sep. 1872 aged 81. Reports of State Trials, i 171–496 (1888).
JOHNSON, Manuel John (only son of John William Johnson of Macao, China). b. Macao 23 May 1835; ed. Addiscombe; lieut. H.E.I. Co.’s artillery at St. Helena 1821–32, where he erected the St. Helena observatory 1828; matric. from Magd. hall, Oxf. 1835, B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; in charge of Radcliffe observatory, Oxf. 1839 to death; made observations of double stars and a catalogue of 6,317 circumpolar stars; adopted the photographic method of registering meteorological facts 1854; F.R.S. 5 June 1856; F.R.A.S., president 1857–8; made a collection of engravings, sold for £3,359 April 1860; author of A catalogue of 606 principal fixed stars in the Southern Hemisphere observed at the magnetical and meteorological observatory, St. Helena 1835; Astronomical observations made at the Radcliffe observatory, Oxford 1840–58. Oxford 1842 etc. d. The observatory, Oxford 28 Feb. 1859; Johnson prize instituted 1862 and given once in 4 years to astronomers. Proc. Royal Soc. x 21–4 (1860); Monthly Notices R.A. Soc. xix 169–70 (1859), xx 123–30 (1860); Mozley’s Reminiscences, ii 188–99 (1882).
JOHNSON, Paul. b. 1789; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814; R. of Sidestrand, Norfolk 1834–72; R. of Overstrand 1841–72; author of The fall of the Yarmouth suspension bridge, with reflections. Norwich 1845; The death of the prince imperial Louis Napoleon, a poem 1879; An epitome in verse of the life of the Prince Consort 1883. d. Kirmington, Ulceby, Lincs. 29 Oct. 1883.
JOHNSON, Percival Norton (only son of John Johnson, at one time the only commercial assayer in London). b. 1793; worked with his father; assayer and metallurgist at 79 Hatton garden, London about 1816; began and carried on manufacture of German silver, and introduced it to general use in England; invented several pottery colours, amongst them the rose-pink; the first person who refined and manufactured platinum upon a commercial scale; F.R.S. 30 April 1846; of firm of John Johnson & Sons, assayers of bullion, metals and minerals, 18A Basinghall st. London, assayers to the bank of England and the Mint. d. Stoke house near Dartmouth 1 June 1866. Quarterly Journal of geological soc. xxiii 39–41 (1867); Proc. of R.S. xvi 23–25 (1868).
Note.—He made and gave the Wollaston medals to geological society many years; they were composed of palladium, a metal discovered in platinum, which in 1867 became so scarce that it sometimes realized ten guineas per ounce.
JOHNSON, Peter. Professional swimmer. d. of inflammation of lungs in a cab whilst going to the hospital at Prague 4 Jany. 1890.
JOHNSON, Robert James. b. about 1832; architect at Newcastle; had a very large practice; A.R.I.B.A. 1861, F.R.I.B.A. 1865; F.S.A. d. Rock villa, Tunbridge Wells 18 April 1892.
JOHNSON, Thomas Marr. b. Appleby, Lincs. 29 June 1826; ed. Winterton, Lincs. and at Ripon; A.I.C.E. 6 April 1852, M.I.C.E. 7 Feb. 1863; res. engineer river Nene and Norfolk estuary works; with B. Baker (under J. Fowler’s instructions) res. engineer of Metropolitan railway, superintended design and execution 1860–9; member of firm of G. Smith & Co. builders and contractors, Feb. 1870 to death; with W. Mills superintended construction of Holborn viaduct station, London. d. 14 Westbourne st. Hyde park, London 20 July 1874. Min. of Proc. I.C.E. xxxix 268–9 (1875).
JOHNSON, Joseph Towers, stage name of Edward Joseph Towers. b. Kentish town, London 26 March 1815; clerk to Goding and Broadwood, ale brewers; made first appearance as Claude in The Bear hunt, Marylebone theatre 1835; at the Pavilion 1835–7, at the Garrick 1839, at Surrey 1840–7, at Lyceum 1847, at Sadler’s Wells; lessee Victoria theatre Nov. 1856 to 1866; stage manager for John Coleman on the Northern circuit 7 or 8 years; the Isaac Levi and Mr. Eden in the original cast of ‘Never too late to mend,’ produced at Royal theatre, Leeds 1864. d. 37 Mitford place, Upper Kennington lane, London 8 July 1891. bur. Tooting cemetery 13 July. Theatrical Times, ii 225, 242 (1847), portrait; The Players, iii 311 (1860), portrait.
JOHNSON, William (3 son of James Johnson of Kendal, attorney, who d. 1828). b. Kendal 1823; sub-editor of the Glasgow Practical mechanics’ and engineers’ magazine 1845–48; started The Practical Mechanics’ Journal, Glasgow 1848, edited it 1848 to death, 16 vols.; patent agent at Glasgow; A.I.C.E. 1850; edited Practical draughtsman’s book of industrial design 1861; author of The imperial cyclopædia of machinery 1852–6; with J. H. Johnson of Abstract of the patent law amendment act 1852. d. Glasgow 10 June 1864.
JOHNSON, William. b. Cumberland 1784; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb. 1810, B.D. 1827; C. of Grasmere 1811, teacher at Grasmere sch., and a friend of Wordsworth; in charge of National society’s sch. Holborn, taught on the Bell system 1812, school removed to Baldwin’s gardens 1814; trainer of masters, travelling organiser, inspector of schools, and later on cashier and comptroller of accounts of National Soc. to 1840; called the Patriarch of National Education; R. of St. Clement’s Eastcheap with St. Martin’s Orgar, London 19 Oct. 1820 to death. d. 29 Martin’s lane, Cannon st. London 20 Sep. 1864. G.M. xvii 526, 661 (1864).
JOHNSON, William. b. Hindley near Wigan, Lancs. 7 March 1831; ed. at Stonyhurst, Ampleforth and Prior park, Bath; missioner at St. Mary’s on the Quay, Bristol 1853–6 and at Chippenham, Wilts. 1856–9; assist. priest at pro-cathedral, Liverpool 1859–62; priest at Breck, Poulton-le-Fylde 1862–79 and at Lydiate 1879 to death; composer of Litany of B.V.M. for four voices 1872; Hail! holy Joseph hail! for four voices 1874; Missa de Sancta Maria 1880; Hail, thou resplendent star. Chorus with solo 1881; The lion and the bear 1878 and his other comic song obtained popularity. d. Lydiate 9 Oct. 1885. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii 641 (1887); Liverpool Catholic Almanac (1886) p. 96, portrait.
JOHNSON, William Augustus. b. 1776; ensign of a new independent company of foot 18 Sep. 1793; captain 32 foot 7 Jany. 1795, lieut. col. 17 May 1810 to 18 Aug. 1814 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 23 Nov. 1841; retired from the army 1855; M.P. Boston 1820–26, M.P. Oldham 1837–47; sheriff of Lincolnshire 1830. d. Wytham on the hill near Stamford 26 Oct. 1863.
JOHNSON, Sir William Gillilan (youngest son of William Johnson, merchant). b. Fortfield, co. Antrim 1808; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1830; barrister King’s inns, Dublin 1838; M.P. Belfast 10 July 1841, election declared void 19 Aug. 1842; mayor of Belfast 1849 when he received the queen on her visit there 11 Aug.; knighted at Belfast 12 Aug. 1849; a founder of the Protestant orphan asylum, Belfast 1866, and with his wife of the Belfast ophthalmic hospital. d. College sq. north, Dublin 9 April 1886. The Belfast news-letter 10 April 1886 p. 5.
JOHNSON, W. H. (son of an ordnance officer, H.E.I.C.S.) b. 1831; ed. at Mussooree; in the North-west Himalayan survey 1848–52; ascended the Snoy Peak near the Néla pass 22 June 1854; in the Kashmir survey party 1855, conducted the triangulations of the Kishangunga valley, fixing his theodolite on some of the highest peaks which had ever been ascended, going nearly to 20,000 feet; first European traveller who visited the plains of Khotan 1865; in service of maharajah of Kashmir 1866 to death, governor and joint commissioner of Ladakh; presented with gold watch by R. Geogr. Soc. 1875. d. it was thought by poison at Jummoo, Kashmir 3 March 1882. Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. v 291–3, 604 (1883).
JOHNSON, William Robert. b. 17 July 1830; ed. Putney coll.; ensign 39 Madras N.I. 2 Oct. 1850, captain 30 Aug. 1860; engaged in public works department, Mysore 1857; first class permanent superintending engineer 1 Jany. 1880 to death; superintending engineer for irrigation, when he looked after the 38,000 water tanks in Mysore; completed the bridge over the Toonga Bhadra river at Hurryhurh; lieut. col. Madras staff corps 20 Dec. 1875; col. in the army 20 Dec. 1880; A.I.C.E. 4 Feb. 1868. d. London 7 June 1882. Min. of Proc. I.C.E. lxxii 319–20 (1883).
JOHNSON, William Ward Percival. b. 1790; entered navy 2 July 1803, commander 19 Sep. 1835; captain on h.p. 14 Dec. 1841; admiral on h.p. 30 July 1875. d. Little Baddow near Chelmsford 26 Dec. 1880. Graphic, xix 216 (1879), portrait; I.L.N. lxxviii 37 (1881), portrait.
JOHNSTON, Alexander (son of an architect). b. Edinburgh 1815; with a seal engraver 1830; student in Trustees acad. Edinb. 1831–4; at Royal acad. London 1836; exhibited 73 pictures at R.A., 49 at B.I. and 16 at Suffolk st. 1836–80; The gentle shepherd 1840 and Sunday morning 1841, are well known by the engravings; his The interview of the regent Murray with Mary, queen of Scots 1841, was purchased by Edinb. art union; Archbishop Tillotson administering the sacrament to lord William Russell in the tower. 1845, is in National gallery. d. 21 Carlingford road, Hampstead 2 Feb. 1891. I.L.N. 14 Feb. 1891 p. 207, portrait.
JOHNSTON, Alexander James (eld. son of James S. Johnston of Wood Hill, Kinnellar, Aberdeenshire). b. Kinnellar 1820; student Lincoln’s inn 1838; barrister M.T. 27 Jany. 1843; deputy recorder of Leeds 1857; a puisne judge of supreme court of New Zealand 1858 to death, acted as chief justice 1867 and 1886; author of A lecture on the influence of art on human happiness. Napier 1861; Reports of cases determined in the courts of appeal of New Zealand 3 vols. 1867; The New Zealand justice of the peace, resident magistrate, coroner and constable. Wellington 1879. d. London 1 June 1888.
JOHNSTON, Alexander Keith (4 son of Andrew Johnston). b. Kirkhill near Edinburgh 28 Dec. 1804; ed. Edin. univ., LLD. 1865; engraver with his bro. William Keith 1826; geographer in ordinary to the Queen 8 Feb. 1840; F.R.G.S. 1843 and Victoria medalist May 1871; F.G.S. 1845, F.R.S.E. 1850; constructed the first globe illustrative of physical geography, medal from Great exhibition of 1851; a founder of Scotch meteorological soc., and hon. sec.; member Edinb. Geological soc. 1862; published The national atlas of historical, commercial and political geography 1843; The physical atlas of natural phenomena 1848, the first physical atlas published in England; Atlas of classical geography 1853. d. Ben Rhydding, Yorkshire 9 July 1871. bur. Grange cemet. Edinb. 14 July. Athenæum 15 July 1871 p. 81; Proc. R. Geographical Soc. xvi 304–6 (1872).
JOHNSTON, Alexander Keith (eld. son of the preceding). b. Edinburgh 24 Nov. 1844; ed. Edinb. instit. and Grange house sch.; superintendent of drawing and engraving of maps with Stanford, London 1866–7; life member R.G.S. 1868 and map-draughtsman and assistant curator 1872–3; in charge of geographical branch of W. and A. K. Johnston’s London business 1869–73; a founder of the Grove park rowing club; geographer to the commission for the survey of Palestine 1873–5; geographer in Paraguay 1873–5; published The library map of Africa 1866; Handbook of physical geography. Edinb. 1870; Lake regions of Central Africa 1870; The surface zones of the globe 1874; leader of R. Geogr. Soc. expedition to the head of lake Nyassa, Nov. 1878. d. of dysentery, Berobero 120 miles from Dar es Salaam 28 June 1879. Academy, ii 102, 107 (1879); I.L.N. lxxv 174 (1879), portrait; J. Thomson’s To the central African lakes, i, pp. xiii–xix (1881), memoir and portrait.
JOHNSTON, Alexander Robert Campbell (3 son of sir Alexander Johnston 1775–1849, chief justice of Ceylon). b. Colombo, Ceylon 14 June 1812; in civil service of Mauritius 1828–33; private sec. to lord Napier in China 1833–35; third commissioner in China 1835; deputy superintendent of trade of British subjects in China, May 1837; administered government of Hong Kong, June 1841 to Dec. 1842; medal for services on board H.M.S. Nemesis 1841; sec. and registrar superintending in China 1843 to 25 Sep. 1852 when office abolished; F.R.S. 5 June 1845. d. San Raphael Ranche, Los Angelos, California 21 Jany. 1888. Athenæum, i 151 (1888).
JOHNSTON, Andrew. b. Cursitor st. London 1818; a civil engineer at Nottingham in partnership with Mr. Underwood 1854–8; assist. engineer Brighton railway 1858–65; principal assist. engineer Midland railway 1865 and engineer 1875 to death; M.I.C.E. 1875. d. 1884. Min. of proc. I.C.E. lxxviii 434–5 (1884).
JOHNSTON, Charles. b. Birmingham; L.S.A. 1833, M.R.C.S. 1835; assist. surgeon Queen’s service 1833–4, surgeon H.E.I.C.S. 1839–41; travelled in Abyssinia and was friendly with king Theodore 1842; proprietor of Hunt’s London Journal, in which he wrote many articles; surgeon at Natal, and member of legislative council 1856–8; surgeon at Barnstaple, Devon; author of Travels in Southern Abyssinia through the country of Adal to the kingdom of Shoa 2 vols. 1844; Observations on health and disease in Natal 1860. d. The square, Barnstaple 16 July 1872. Medical Times 17 Aug. 1872 p. 189.
JOHNSTON, Charles James. b. 1765; entered navy about 1787; governor of naval hospital of Madras 1802; captain 5 Sep. 1806; the Cornwallis under his command in 1807 was the first regular man of war to pass between Australia and Van Diemen’s Land; V.A. on half pay 6 Nov. 1850; pensioned 15 April 1854. d. Cowhill near Dumfries 16 Oct. 1856.
JOHNSTON, David (son of Henry Johnston of Corstorphine and Edinburgh). b. Edinburgh 19 May 1801; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1 Aug. 1821; translated Dante’s Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso 3 vols. 1867–8; Corneille’s Polyeucte 1870; published Hadrianus Moriens, translations of Hadrian’s Address to his soul 1870, containing 98 translations by living authors; author of A general view of the system of public education in France. Edin. 1827; A general medical and statistical history of charity in France 1829. d. 13 Marlborough buildings, Bath 17 Oct. 1879. The Academy 1879 ii p. 321.
JOHNSTON, Frederick. b. 18 June 1792; cornet 6 dragoons 4 April 1810; captain 17 light dragoons 1824–6; major 67 foot 2 April 1829 to 26 Feb. 1836; general 7 Jany. 1874; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. d. A 10, Albany, Piccadilly, London 31 Jany. 1882.
JOHNSTON, George. b. Simprin, Berwickshire 20 July 1797; ed. at Kelso, Berwick and univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1819; M.R.C.S. Edinb. 1817, F.R.C.S. 1819; general practitioner at Berwick 1819–53, mayor 3 times; LL.D. Aberdeen; a founder of Ray soc. 1844 and of Berwickshire naturalists’ club; one of editors of Mag. of zoology and botany; wrote 90 papers on natural history; author of A Flora of Berwick-upon-Tweed 2 vols. 1829–31; A history of the British zoophytes. Edinb. 1838, 2 ed. London 1847; A history of British sponges and lithophytes 1842; An introduction to conchology 1850. d. Berwick on Tweed 30 July 1855. Proc. of Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club, iii 202, 215.
JOHNSTON, George (son of Andrew Johnston, surgeon in the army). b. Dublin 12 Aug. 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.R.C.S.E. 1837; M.D. Edin. 1845; assistant phys. of lying-in hospital, Dublin 1848–55; master of the Rotunda hospital, and writer of the clinical reports 1868–75; F.K.Q.C.P. Dublin 1863, pres. 1880; author with E. B. Sinclair of Practical midwifery, comprising an account of 13,748 deliveries which took place in the Rotunda hospital. 1878. d. 15 St. Stephen’s Green north, Dublin 7 March 1889.
JOHNSTON, James. Ensign 8 foot 7 June 1839, lieut. col. 1 July 1862 to death. d. Malta 29 Dec. 1865.
JOHNSTON, James Finlay Weir. b. Paisley 13 Sep. 1796; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, M.A.; kept a school at Durham 1825–30; studied chemistry under Berzelius in Sweden 1830; professor of chemistry and mineralogy in univ. of Durham from its foundation 1833 to death; chemist to Agricultural society of Scotland 1843 to date when society was dissolved; F.R.S. 15 June 1837; F.R.S. Edin.; author of The economy of a coalfield. Durham 1838; Catechism of agricultural chemistry and geology. Edinb. 1844, 33 editions, translated into most European languages and taught in schools; On the use of lime in agriculture 1849; The chemistry of common life 2 vols. 1853–5, 3 ed. 1879, his best work; contributed to Edinburgh review and Blackwood’s mag. d. Durham 18 Sep. 1855. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Mag., Nov. 1855 pp. 548–51.
JOHNSTON, James Henry. b. 1787; entered navy 1803, present at battle of Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805, lieut. 16 Feb. 1810; lieut. on half pay July 1815; proposed establishment of steam communication with India viâ the Mediterranean and Red Sea 1823; designed iron steamers which navigated the Ganges many years; controller of the H.E.I. Company’s steamers 1833–50. d. on his way home from India 5 May 1851.
JOHNSTON, Norman. b. 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830; inc. of St. Peter, Kirkcaldy 1840 to death; presented with 200 guineas on his jubilee March 1890; domestic chaplain to Countess of Rothes 1859; dean of united dioceses of St. Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane 1880 to death. d. Kirkcaldy 18 Sep. 1890 aged 84.
JOHNSTON, Robert. Called to bar in Ireland 1829; Q.C. 9 May 1868. d. 1885.
JOHNSTON, Thomas Henry (brother of Alexander R. C. Johnston 1812–88). b. 1807; ensign 66 foot 21 Feb. 1822, lieut. col. 28 Dec. 1838 to 12 July 1850; served in Canadian rebellion 1837–8; col. 87 foot 9 April 1864, col. 66 foot 10 Oct. 1870 to death; general 5 Dec. 1871. d. Carnsalloch, Dumfriesshire 29 Dec. 1891.
JOHNSTON, William (son of Thomas Boston Johnston, packman). b. Biggar, Lanarkshire 18 Feb. 1800; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, M.A. 1817, D.D. 1850; Secession minister at Limekilns near Dunfermline 1823 to death; the Secession church became the United Presbyterian church in 1847, convener of committee on education 1847 to death; moderator of synod 1854; a jubilee service held in his honor 27 Aug. 1873 when he was presented with an epergne and 1000 guineas; author of A memoir of the rev. Robert Brown. Dunfermline 1830. d. at his lodgings, Hanover st. Edinburgh 24 May 1874. W. Gifford’s Memorials of the life of Dr. Johnston (1876), portrait; J. Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy (2 Ser. 1849) 334–9.
JOHNSTON, Sir William (3 son of Andrew Johnston). b. Kirkhill near Penicuik, Midlothian 27 Oct. 1802; ed. at high school, Edin.; an engraver, Edin. 1 Dec. 1825; founded with his brother, firm of W. and A. K. Johnston 1826; engraver and copperplate printer to the Queen 2 Dec. 1837; purchased the business of the Messrs. Lizars 1859; built the Edina works, Easter road, Edinb. 1878; high constable of Edin. 1828; moderator to the high constables 1831, 32 and 39; member of dean of guild court 1831, of town council 1832; a bailie of Edin. 1840, lord provost 1848–51; knighted at Holyrood palace 26 Aug. 1851; retired from business 1867; joined with his brother in the production of atlases and maps. d. Kirkhill house near Gorebridge, Midlothian 7 Feb. 1888. Bookseller, March 1888 pp. 258–9.
JOHNSTON, William Walker Whitehall (eld. son of Thomas F. Johnston, colonial sec. of Trinidad, West Indies). Ensign 1 West India regiment 4 Aug. 1854, lieut. col. 24 Dec. 1873 to 1 April 1880 when placed on h.p.; hon. M.G. 1 April 1880. d. 9 Beauclerc road, The Grove, London 21 Jany. 1886.
JOHNSTONE, Charles Vanden Bempde (younger son of sir R. V. B. Johnstone, 1 baronet, d. 1807). b. 24 Aug. 1800; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1830; V. of Feliskirk, Yorkshire 1827–72; preb. of Wetwang in York cath. 17 Oct. 1844 to death; canon res. of York 1845–73. d. Sutton hall, Thirsk 15 May 1882.
JOHNSTONE, Christian Isobel. b. Fifeshire 1781. (m. Mr. M’Leish, she obtained a divorce; m. (2) about 1812 John Johnstone of Dunfermline, schoolmaster, afterwards editor of Inverness Courier, they edited the Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle); she edited and wrote ‘The schoolmaster and Edinburgh weekly mag.’ 4 Aug. 1832 to 29 June 1833 when it was converted into ‘Johnstone’s Edinburgh Mag.’ published monthly 9 numbers, this was incorporated with Tait’s Edinburgh Mag. 1834 which she edited 1834–46; author of Clan Albin, a national tale 4 vols. 1815, anon.; The cook and housewife’s manual. By Mistress Margaret Dods of the Cleikum inn, St. Ronans 1826, 11 ed. 1862; Nights of the round table, or stories of Aunt Jane and her friends. 2 series Edin. 1832 and 1849; John Johnstone d. Edinb. 3 Nov. 1857 aged 76; she d. Buccleuch place, Edinburgh 26 Aug. 1857. W. Anderson’s Scottish Nation, iii 713–15 (1863); Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, Sep. 1857 pp. 573–5.
Note.—Some accounts say this lady’s names were Christina Jane Johnstone.
JOHNSTONE, Edward (3 son of James Johnstone of Kidderminster afterwards of Worcester, M.D. 1730–1802). b. Kidderminster 26 Sep. 1757; ed. at free gram. sch. there and at univ. of Edinb.; B.D., M.D. 1779; one of physicians of Birmingham general hospital 1779; pres. of Medical sch., afterward called Queen’s college, Birmingham 1827–45; principal of Queen’s coll. 1827–45; hon. phys. of Queen’s hosp. Birmingham to death. d. Edgbaston hall near Birmingham 4 Sep. 1851. Edgbastonia, iv 21–23 (1884).
JOHNSTONE, Edward (eld. son of the preceding). b. Ladywood house near Birmingham 9 April 1804; ed. Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; barrister L.I. 6 May 1828, barrister I.T. 1838; a founder of the Literary association of the Friends of Poland 1832; author of What is Poland? a question of geography, history and public law 1836; The general orders and practice of the courts of common law in Ireland 1854; claimed the dormant marquisate of Annandale 1876, claim dismissed by House of Lords as not having been proved 1881. d. Worcester 20 Sep. 1881. bur. Edgbaston. Biograph, Aug. 1880 pp. 170–3; Edgbastonia, iv 21–3 (1884).
JOHNSTONE, Henry James Wolfenden (eld. son of James Johnstone 1777–1845, physician extraordinary to William IV. 1830). b. 1808; ed. at Westminster sch. and St. George’s hosp. where he became house surgeon and teacher of anatomy; M.R.C.S. 1834, F.R.C.S. 1843; edited with his father The Medico-Chirurgical Review; had a large practice, retired through bad health 1848; resided in France 1848–50; presumed to be author of a series of letters in The Times beginning 20 Dec. 1851, exposing and condemning Louis Napoleon’s imperial designs; author of Clinical observations on diseases of the genito-urinary organs 1851. d. High view, St. Lawrence, Ramsgate 19 Oct. 1889.
JOHNSTONE, James (brother of Edward Johnstone 1804–81). b. Edgbaston hall near Birmingham 12 April 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., M.B. 1828, M.L. 1830, M.D. 1832; F.R.C.P. 1834; studied in Edin., Paris and London; professor of materia medica and therapeutics at Queen’s college, Birmingham 1841 to death; phys. to the general hospital 1841 to death; pres. of British Medical Association, Sep. 1865; author of A therapeutic arrangement and syllabus of materia medica 1835; A discourse on the phenomena of sensation as connected with the mental, physical and instructive faculties of man 1841. d. Leamington 11 May 1869. Langford’s Modern Birmingham, ii 333–7, 492 (1877).
JOHNSTONE, James (son of James Johnstone a messenger of court of bankruptcy, d. 1865 aged 79). b. Charles st. Old st. London 26 June 1815; a messenger of bankruptcy court, Basinghall st. 1842–61; head of firm of Johnstone, Cooper, Wintle & Co. of 3 Coleman st. buildings, accountants 1861 to death; bought the Morning Herald and Standard newspapers from Charles Baldwin for £16,500 in 1857, issued the Standard as a morning paper 29 June 1857 at price of 2 pence, reduced price to 1 penny 4 Feb. 1858; started the Evening Herald 29 June 1857 which ceased 27 May 1865; the Morning Herald ceased 31 Dec. 1869; discontinued evening issue of the Standard 29 June 1857, but revived it 11 June 1860, appeared in a new form 1 Jany. 1870, sometimes circulated 100,000 copies; paid off all his liabilities and became sole proprietor of Standard 1870. d. Hooley house, Coulsdon, Surrey 21 Oct. 1878. J. Hatton’s Journalistic London (1882) 146–54, portrait; Vanity Fair 14 Feb. 1874 p. 81, portrait; Bourne’s English Newspapers, ii 226, 239–41, 336–7 (1887).
JOHNSTONE, James (eld. son of James Raymond Johnstone of Alva, Stirlingshire). b. Overton, Rutland 4 July 1801; ed. at Rugby and univ. of Edin.; admitted advocate at Scotch bar 1824; M.P. for Clackmannan and Kinross 1851–57. d. 24 Feb. 1888.
JOHNSTONE, John Beer. b. Dublin 12 March 1803; an actor in Ireland, the provinces and London; never had more than £2 a week up to 1882; at Princess’s theatre under Wilson Barrett 1882; presented with a testimonial and £60 by 200 actors on his eightieth birthday 12 March 1883; author of upwards of 200 dramas for which he received on an average about £5; he sold an extravaganza and a farce to David W. Osbaldiston for 15/-; his chief printed dramas are The Drunkard’s children. Pavilion theatre July 1848; The gipsy farmer or Jack and Jack’s brother. Surrey theatre March 1849; Gale Breezely or the tale of a tar. Surrey 1853; Ben Bolt. Surrey 28 March 1854; The sailor of France. Surrey 28 Nov. 1854; Tufelhausen or the lawyer’s legend. Surrey 24 March 1856; Pedrillo or a search for two fathers. Marylebone theatre 16 Nov. 1857; Morley Ashton or a sea voyage 1866; Jack Long or a shot in the eye 1872. d. 25 April 1891. bur. Brompton cemet. The Era 17 March 1883 p. 8.
JOHNSTONE, John Douglas. b. 1808; ensign 3 foot 15 Aug. 1827; captain 33 foot 19 Oct. 1838, lieut. col. 9 March 1855 to 17 April 1860 when placed on retired full pay; M.G. 17 April 1860; C.B. 27 July 1855. d. Dublin 19 Sep. 1863.
Note.—He and his son J. D. Johnstone were the first in the assault on the Redan, where he lost his left arm.
JOHNSTONE, Sir John Vanden Bempde, 2 Baronet. b. Hackness hall near Scarborough 28 Aug. 1799; ed. Rugby and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1821; succeeded 14 July 1807; M.P. Yorkshire 1830–32; M.P. Scarborough 1832–7 and 1841 to death; major Yorkshire hussars 22 April 1843, lieut. col. 6 April 1859 to 30 Aug. 1859; while hunting in Northamptonshire broke a rib which entered his lungs 20 Feb., d. 34 Belgrave sq. London 25 Feb. 1869. bur. at parish church, Hackness 3 March. Reg. and mag. of Biog. i 294 (1869).
JOHNSTONE, Montague Cholmeley (3 son of James Raymond Johnstone of Alva, co. Clackmannan 1768–1830). b. 2 March 1804; ensign 27 foot 27 Feb. 1823, lieut. col. 16 Nov. 1841 to 23 March 1849; lieut. col. 87 foot 23 March 1849 to 26 Oct. 1858; col. 88 foot 10 Aug. 1864 to death; general 29 Dec. 1873. d. Baden Baden 22 Sep. 1874.
JOHNSTONE, William (son of Mr. Johnstone, colliery manager to Mr. Dixon of the Govan iron works, Lanarkshire). b. parish of Old Monkland near Glasgow 1 July 1811; articled to David Smith of Glasgow, C.E. 1826–33; engineer and general manager of Glasgow and Ayr railway 1840, of Glasgow and South western railway to 31 Dec. 1874, the former line gradually developed into the latter; pres. of Institution of engineers in Scotland 1861–63, formed in 1857 chiefly by W. J. M. Rankine and himself; M.I.C.E. 4 Dec. 1866. d. Glasgow 27 April 1877.
JOHNSTONE, William Borthwick (son of John Johnstone, solicitor). b. Edinb. 21 July 1804; in a lawyer’s office, Edinb.; attended antique classes of Trustees academy 1840–2; exhibited at Trustees academy exhibitions from 1836 to death; A.R. Scottish Acad. 1840, member 1848, treasurer 1850; took his mother’s name of Borthwick 1847; oil, water-colour and miniature painter; his picture, A scene in Holyrood, 1855 is in National gallery of Scotland; first principal curator of Nat. Gall. of Scotland 1858; his collections of arms, armour and pictures, sold by Chapman, a 6 days’ sale; author of Catalogue of the National gallery of Scotland 1859, 18 ed. 1868. d. 3 Gloucester place, Edinb. 5 June 1868.
JOHNSTONE, Sir William James Hope (2 son of sir Wm. Johnstone Hope, G.C.B. 1766–1831). b. Haddingtonshire 28 July 1798; entered navy 20 June 1811, captain 21 Oct. 1823, R.A. 22 April 1853, V.A. 4 Feb. 1858, admiral 24 Sep. 1863; commander in chief on S.E. coast of America 1854–57; at Sheerness 28 June 1860 to 25 June 1863; R.A. of the United Kingdom 12 Feb. 1870, placed on retired list April 1870; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. d. 24 Albany st. Edinburgh 11 July 1878.
JOICEY, John (4 son of George Joicey of Newcastle). b. Tynemouth 1816; apprenticed to his brother James Joicey, colliery viewer 1838–41, partner in the firm to death; sheriff of Durham 1878; M.P. North Durham April 1880 to death; A.I.C.E. 2 March 1875; erected and endowed Newton Hall church 1877; gave sum of £12,000 to Museum of natural history society of Northumberland and Durham 1881. d. Newton Hall, Stocksfield on Tyne 15 Aug. 1881, personalty sworn £678,000, 28 Jany. 1882. Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. lxix 417–18 (1882).
JOLLIE, Patrick. Oldest bookseller in the world. d. Leslie, Fifeshire 3 Oct. 1885 aged 97.
JOLLIFFE, Peter William. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1789, M.A. 1792; P.C. of St. James, Poole, Dorset 4 May 1791 to death; the oldest incumbent in England. d. Parkstone near Poole, March 1861 aged 95.
JOLLIFFE, Thomas Robert (2 son of Thomas Samuel Jolliffe, M.P.) b. 1780; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; R. of Babington near Frome 15 Feb. 1810 to death; author of Letters from Palestine. Signed Th. R. J. 1819, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1854; Narrative of an excursion from Corfu to Smyrna 1827. d. Ammerdown park near Bath 15 June 1872.
JOLLIFFE, William Peter (only son of Christopher Jolliffe of Poole, Dorset). b. Poole 1812; barrister G.I. 30 June 1839, bencher 1 March 1875 to death, treasurer 1881; standing counsel to governors of Queen Anne’s bounty 1878 to death; member of Council of legal education. d. Bournemouth 31 May 1887.
JOLLY, John Marks. b. 1790; travelled with Edmund Kean and Sheridan Knowles as an actor and conductor of the orchestra; conductor at Surrey theatre, London 1840–60; at various periods connected with the bands of Her Majesty’s, Drury Lane and Covent Garden; conductor and arranger of music at Oxford music hall till June 1863; his opera Mabel produced at Covent Garden under Madame Vestris’ management 1840; composer of the songs, Queen of the starry night 1855, and Where are all the young men gone 1861; The Gipsy sisters, a duet 1858; Poor Jennie, solo and quartett 1861. d. West sq. Southwark 1 July 1864. Era 10 July 1864 p. 11.
JOLY, Henry Edward. Archdeacon of Killala to death; author of Questions deducible from the Introductory lessons on the History of religious worship of R. Whately 1849; Questions deducible from the Introductory lessons on Christian evidences of R. Whately 1849. d. Hollywood 3 June 1852.
JONAS, Edmund James. b. 1805; governor of Newgate 1859–74. d. Turle road, Tollington park, London 30 Jany. 1879.
JONAS, Elizabeth. b. St. George’s road, Southwark 1825; at six years of age was a good musician; first appeared at Mr. J. Field’s concert as a pianiste 1832; played in oratorios at Drury Lane; scholar R. Academy 1836, King’s scholar 1838, associate 1841, teacher of the piano there 1838–50; residing in St. George’s road 1854. Cazalet’s Hist. of R. Acad. of Music (1854) 299–302.
JONES, Aaron. b. Pennsylvania near Shrewsbury 3 March 1831; fought Harry Orme at Frimley 18 Dec. 1849 when he lost after 40 rounds in 2¾ hours; beat Bob Wade at Edenbridge 24 Sep. 1850; fought Orme again 10 May 1852 for £100 a side at Bourne Bridge and Newmarket, police interfered, Jones refused to renew the contest and so lost; beaten by Tom Paddock 18 July 1854 and 26 June 1855; fought Tom Sayers £100 a side, 62 rounds in 3 hours, Banks of the Medway, darkness came on, both men much punished 6 Jany. 1857; beaten by Sayers £100 a side, 85 rounds in 2 hours, Banks of the Medway 10 Feb. 1857; went to U.S. of America, where he trained and seconded J. C. Heenan for his fight with John Morrissey at Long Point, Canada 20 Oct. 1858; entered Confederate army during the civil war, one of general Beauregard’s aide-de-camps; fought Mike Mc Coole for 2000 dollars and the championship at Busenburk station, Ohio, when Mc Coole won in 34 rounds lasting 26 minutes. d. Leavenworth, Indiana 16 Feb. 1869, reported to have been poisoned. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica, iii 253, 262, 283, 382, 419.
JONES, Alexander (youngest son of 4 Viscount Ranelagh d. 1797). b. 9 March 1778; entered navy 1790; wrecked among Japanese islands 1797; saved H.M.S. Tartarus from destruction after she had been abandoned at Ferrol 1800; captain 1 Aug. 1811; commander of Talbot sloop making many captures 1807–11; admiral on half pay 1 Nov. 1860. d. Cheltenham 8 Jany. 1862.
JONES, Anna Maria. Author of The Gipsey, a romantic tale. London, Chapple 2 vols., and other works of fiction. d. a pauper 25 Jany. 1854.
JONES, Avonia Stanhope (dau. of George Jones, actor 1810–79). b. 43 Barrow st. New York 12 July 1836; first appeared on the stage at People’s theatre, Cincinnati 18 April 1856 as Parthenia in Ingomar; played in Australia 1860–1; first appeared in London at Drury Lane 5 Nov. 1861 as Medea; played at the Adelphi 1862–3; acted Lady Isabel in East Lynne at the Surrey 1864 and Theodora in Watts Phillips’s drama Theodora, actress and empress at same house 9 April 1866; played in the provinces and in Dublin. (m. 1862 Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, actor 1818–66). d. of rapid consumption, 2 Bond st. New York 4 Oct. 1867. bur. Mount Auburn cemet. Boston. Illust. sporting news, v 145 (1866), portrait.
JONES, Benjamin Orlando. Ensign 36 foot 29 May 1805; captain 12 foot 19 Sep. 1822 to 6 July 1826 when placed on half pay; col. 73 foot 15 Sep. 1860 to death; L.G. 12 Nov. 1862; K.H. 1837; K.T.S. d. The Hafod, Abergavenny 16 Feb. 1865.
JONES, Charles Chadwicke. b. 1800; barrister M.T. 25 June 1830; went the home circuit; practised at the Old Bailey; serjeant at law 10 July 1844; author of Recollections of royalty, from the death of William Rufus in 1100 to that of the cardinal York in 1807, 2 vols. 1828. d. 18 Lambeth ter. London 7 July 1852 aged 52.
JONES, Charles Handfield (son of J. Jones, captain R.N.) b. Liverpool 1 Oct. 1819; ed. at Rugby and Cath. hall, Camb., B.A. 1840, M.B. 1843; studied at St. George’s hosp. London; M.R.C.P. 1845, F.R.C.P. 1849, junior censor 1863–4, senior censor 1886, vice pres. 1888; delivered Lumleian lectures on pathology of the nervous system 1865; F.R.S. 6 June 1850; phys. to St. Mary’s hosp. Paddington 1851; author of Pathological and clinical observations respecting morbid conditions of the stomach 1855; Clinical observations on functional nervous disorders 1864; with E. H. Sieveking of A manual of pathological anatomy 1854, 2 ed. 1875. d. 24 Montagu sq. London 30 Sep. 1890. British Medical Journal, ii 800, 874, 924, 932 (1890).
JONES, Sir Charles Thomas (3 son of Charles Thomas Jones of Frontraith, Montgomeryshire). b. 1778; entered navy 1791; knighted by duke of Richmond, lord lieutenant of Ireland 1810; captain 12 Aug. 1819, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired R.A. 27 Aug. 1851. d. Montgomery 4 April 1853.
JONES, Mrs. Charles W. b. 29 Nov. 1789; singing chambermaid in the provinces; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre as Lady Duberly in The Heir at law 18 June 1823; played old women at Covent Garden and Drury Lane; last appeared at Drury Lane 1842; played Lady Bait in P. Palmer’s comedy Life, at Olympic 16 Nov. 1846. d. York town, Farnborough, Hants. 28 Feb. 1866. Era 18 March 1866 p. 11.
JONES, Sir Daniel. Colonel; resided at Brockville in district of Johnstown, Upper Canada; knighted at St. James’s palace 16 March 1836. d. 1856.
JONES, David (eld. son of John Jones d. 1843). b. Blaenos, Llandovery, Nov. 1810; ed. at Charterhouse; sheriff of Carmarthenshire 1845; M.P. Carmarthenshire 1852–68. d. Pantglas, Carmarthenshire 1 July 1869.
Note.—He unsuccessfully contested Sudbury 29 June 1841, and at his own sole expense unseated the two members then returned, which led to the disfranchisement of the borough 1844.